Consider the following excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":...

Consider the following excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

"And how should I presume?
And how should I begin?
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the chimneys,
Or bowed to shadows in the public square?"

The speaker's use of rhetorical questions in this passage suggests that he is feeling: