For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume? â€""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot Which modernist ideas are in this famous passage? Check the four best choices. Despair and disillusionment: feeling that life is meaningless introspection: thinking about why one does things stream of consciousness: a rambling voice mirroring the confusion in the world the mistrust of institutions: fearing the government loneliness: feeling separated from others.