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which two sections of this excerpt from 1. S. Ellots Ine Love Song of J. Altrea Prufrock contain a DIDIical allusion?
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep ... tired... or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet-and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile.
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,



Answer :

Meherpuya

Answer:

The two sections that contain a Biblical allusion are:

1. "Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,

Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"

2. "To have squeezed the universe into a ball

To roll it toward some overwhelming question,"

These lines allude to the biblical story of John the Baptist, who was beheaded at the request of Salome after she danced for King Herod. John the Baptist's head was brought to Herod on a platter. This is referenced metaphorically in the excerpt.