The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
An ageing, fastidious speaker walks a city of half-deserted streets toward a room where women come and go, rehearsing an overwhelming question he has no intention of asking. Digression, self-mockery and the measuring out of a life in coffee spoons keep displacing the visit itself. The poem that opened Eliot's career, written at Harvard and printed in Poetry at Pound's urging.
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- alludes to ↑ The Divine Comedy
- alludes to ↑ Hamlet
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