In T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, what is the repeated phrase that suggests a sense of futility?

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In T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, what is the repeated phrase that suggests a sense of futility?

A. Do I dare disturb the universe?

B. In the room where women come and go

C. I have heard the mermaids singing

D. Let us go then, you and I

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A. Do I dare disturb the universe?

In T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, what is the repeated phrase that suggests a sense of futility?

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