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Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

How is the chaos in the speaker’s mind expressed in the excerpt?

through repetition of the term “window-panes”
through the use of varied rhyme scheme in the lines
through the use of rhyming in the final pair of lines
through repetition of the phrase “talking of Michelangelo”

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User Alexander Weber
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The chaos in the speaker's mind is expressed through the repetition of the phrase "talking of Michelangelo." This repetition creates a sense of fragmented thoughts and a lack of focus or coherence. The women coming and going, talking about Michelangelo, become a recurring motif that emphasizes the speaker's disoriented state of mind. The repetition reinforces the speaker's internal turmoil and the disjointed nature of his thoughts, contributing to the overall sense of confusion and chaos in the excerpt.

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