Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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• telemachos · Apr 4, 2010 · Recommends

  …John Donne: a bunch but if none else Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed Philip Larkin: he didn't write much; read the complete poems (if nothing else, look at "Born yesterday") T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Return of the Magi", "Hollow men" Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent Gustave Flaubert:…

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• xekul · Mar 30, 2015 · Recommends

  T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" perfectly captures the essence of a middle-aged man's insecurities, and Eliot wrote it when he was 23.

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• mhink · May 11, 2015 · Mentions

  …read this line: "Through the rooms people (mostly women) come and go, talking occasionally in hushed tones of Michelangelo, and texting." Which is a cleverly-paraphrased reference to a line from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.

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• hilbert42 · Oct 22, 2022 · Mentions

  …anthropologists and literati, so much waste paper." Perhaps so, and that's essentially what many of my fellow students and I thought of the poem when we studied it at high school along with Eliot's other epic The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — although the latter was better tolerated. We spent months poring over The Wasteland line by line until we understood every nuance in every line (or I should say were supposed to know every nuance but…

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• hilbert42 · Jun 24, 2023 · Mentions

  …found Shakespeare a drugery and that was so for some. Their attitude was the words didn't make sense so why bother studying it (the same went for poetry, I recall some kids just giving up on Eliott's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land). Fortunately, I caught the Shakespeare bug and I'm very glad I did. Incidentally, we had a little textbook just called English Essays, it contained works by Addison, Steele, Bacon,…

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• circlefavshape · Oct 13, 2016 · Mentions

  …don't, to me and others they do Really? I've spent pretty much all my spare time and money on music for the last 30 years, but no lyrics by themselves have ever had the effect on me that, for example "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" has had ... but then maybe I'm looking at this wrong, and the prize is being awarded for the songs rather than just the lyrics. If that's the case then I guess the prize is well-deserved

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• brian_cunnie · May 30, 2020 · Mentions

  I remember the first time I read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. It spoke to me, powerfully. I tried The Wasteland next, but I didn't get it.

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• dimal · Aug 16, 2023 · Mentions

  …think what I do with code is more “informed by” that process than a duplication of it. But one specific thing I remember was that you look at context. One example I remember from school was reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and how by describing the fog as yellow and a few other details, we could infer that the setting was almost surely London, although that’s not stated. Another fun thing was reading old literature at…

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