The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

In lines 2-3

the narrator describes the evening “spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.” What effect does this image have on the poem’s meaning?

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The image provides a sense of melancholy.

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock