"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
That quote makes me imagine a crab running around an empty ocean floor. This applies to the theme because earlier, the poet mentioned a few times that he feels that people judge him and he still doesn't know what to do with life. This way as a crab, he doesn't have to decide on doing anything with his life. The "floors of silent seas" implies that there is no other living being insight so therefore he can not be judged for anything.
"By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown. Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
Here he proves again that he doesn't like to be with people. This is because he feels that everyone stares at him and judges him. So whenever he hears a human, he feels like he is drowning on the inside. And as the epilogues says, he is in hell. That too I think is imagery because he's not talking about the actual place, he is talking about how life on Earth feels like hell to him because he's full of people who judge him for being indecisive and then there's the feeling that he's wasting his life away. But, he has been thinking so long about doing something for so long before he actually does it so he fears that it might be too late and his deadline is coming soon. All of those thoughts, make him feel like he is in hell.
The Great Gatsby:
"The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are always watching, and so are the eyes of God."
Here I can picture the billboard which contains two giant eyes that is advertising for the eyed doctor. I can also imagine God looking down at Earth(America specifically) and judging the new culture. This ties in with the theme of the novel because at that point in history, most of society stopped living with morals and virtues. We see that in the novel when people constantly attend parties(even when they weren't invited) , by people constantly wanting new things, braking prohibition, and everyone is obsessed with thinking about themselves. No one rich was helping the needy in The Valley of the Ashes.
The Great Gatsby:
"The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are always watching, and so are the eyes of God."
Here I can picture the billboard which contains two giant eyes that is advertising for the eyed doctor. I can also imagine God looking down at Earth(America specifically) and judging the new culture. This ties in with the theme of the novel because at that point in history, most of society stopped living with morals and virtues. We see that in the novel when people constantly attend parties(even when they weren't invited) , by people constantly wanting new things, braking prohibition, and everyone is obsessed with thinking about themselves. No one rich was helping the needy in The Valley of the Ashes.
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