The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot | Powerful Life Poetry
This poem, the earliest of Eliot’s major works, was completed in 1910 but not published until 1915. It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man—overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poem’s speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummating their relationship. But Prufrock knows too much of life to “dare” an approach to the woman: In his mind he hears the comments others make about his inadequacies, and he chides himself for “presuming” emotional interaction could be possible at all. The poem moves from a series of fairly concrete (for Eliot) physical settings—a cityscape (the famous “patient etherised upon a table”) and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images conveying Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate status (“I am not Prince Hamlet’). “Prufrock” is powerful for its range of intellectual reference and also for the vividness of character achieved.
The epigraph in “Prufrock” is a quotation from Dante's Inferno in which Guido da Montefeltro, who is being tortured, says he feels safe revealing the truth of his horrible deeds to Dante because he believes that Dante will never make it out of hell to tell the rest of the world. Without this prelude spoken in Italian the poem would be incomplete.
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The epigraph in “Prufrock” is a quotation from Dante's Inferno in which Guido da Montefeltro, who is being tortured, says he feels safe revealing the truth of his horrible deeds to Dante because he believes that Dante will never make it out of hell to tell the rest of the world. Without this prelude spoken in Italian the poem would be incomplete.
Music : Scott Buckley
I Walk With Ghosts
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