Question
Read the verses from the Bible's Ecclesiastes 3.1-4.
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Which lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" are an allusion to these verses?
© There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
© For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
• And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
O There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
Answer
The lines "There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands" are an allusion to Ecclesiastes 3.1-4.