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Read the following passage from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

The muttering retreats

of restless nights in one night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

Which words from this passage best demonstrate the speaker's feeling that

life is tiresome and dull?

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Chace Melendez

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10 October, 11:15

Question

of 10

Read the following passage from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

The muttering retreats

of restless nights in one night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

Which words from this passage best demonstrate the speaker's feeling that

life is tiresome and dull?

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Libby Lamb · Answer 1

The speaker shows that life is tiresome and dull when he mentions "tedious argument / / of insidious intent". The very definition of the word "tedious" is dull, monotonous. It's not just a minor detail when the speaker mentions "streets that follow". You could say that streets are the path that he is following and it's tedious.