No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

from T.S. Eliot – The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock on Rap Genius

Meaning

An allusion to Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be,” from Hamlet. The speaker recognizes that he probably plays a relatively unimportant part in the grand design….

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