Which Modernist poem famously opens with the lines: 'Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table'?
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Correct answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Published in 1915, this poem by T.S. Eliot epitomizes Modernist alienation and the breakdown of traditional romantic imagery. The comparison of the sky to an etherized patient signals a clinical, fragmented worldview that defines the Modernist sensibility.
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