Which lines in this excerpt from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contain a biblical allusion?
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The lines in from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" which contain a biblical allusion are:
“Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet”
“To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,”
T.S. Elliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” is a poem which is about the loneliness and melancholic state of human beings. He speaks about the frustration which a man undergoes in order to search the meaning of his existence in the world. The poet asks the readers to accompany him through the journey of his life which has been a pale and dull experience for him. The poem speaks about the unhappy life of Prufrock as he thinks that a much larger part of his life as ended. He also terrifies at the fact that he will be laughed at by the people as he had a failure of not achieving things at the proper age. Throughout his life, he has bothered about the views of the society which they will build according to his deeds and acts. It is because of his peers and the people of the society that he has turned himself to a person who is unable to ask any question. He fears that if he'll ask his questions, he will be mocked and be ridiculed.