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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by the American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness .
In 1915, Ezra Pound, overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the magazine's founder, that she should publish "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". [68] Although the character Prufrock seems to be middle-aged, Eliot wrote most of the poem when he was only twenty-two.
The poem is quoted several times, by various characters, in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). [1] [2]The film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) directed by Patricia Rozema takes its title from a line in the poem, as do the films Eat the Peach (1986), directed by Peter Ormrod, and Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002), directed by Michael Petroni.
T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons. I map out mine in bowls of borscht.
The phrase "there will be time" occurs repeatedly in a section of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), and is often said to be an allusion to Marvell's poem. [10] Prufrock says that there will be time "for the yellow smoke that slides along the street", time "to murder and create", and time "for a hundred indecisions ...
The title and lyrics of the song reference the 1915 T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". [2] Lead vocalist Brad Roberts called it "a song about being afraid of getting old, which is a reflection of my very neurotic character". [3]
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley addresses Pound's alleged failure as a poet. F. R. Leavis considered it "quintessential autobiography." [2]Speaking of himself in the third person, Pound criticises his earlier works as attempts to "wring lilies from the acorn", that is to pursue aesthetic goals and art for art's sake in a rough setting, America, which he calls "a half-savage country".
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot: Adapts elements of the T. S. Eliot poem. [36] "Ahab" The Graduate: MC Lars: Moby-Dick: Herman Melville: Retells the story of Moby-Dick from the perspective of Captain Ahab. [37] "Alice" Every Trick in the Book: Ice Nine Kills: Go Ask Alice: Beatrice Sparks [38] [39] "All I Wanna Do" Tuesday ...