From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-
Almost, at times, the Fool

In this passage of the poem, the speaker contrasts himself to Shakespeare's Hamlet by calling attention to his own

A)
valor
B)
effort
C)
optimism
D)
insignificance