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"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 ...
"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 .
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Lord Barnard then asks his wife whether she still prefers Little Musgrave to him and when she says she would prefer a kiss from the dead man's lips to her husband and all his kin, he kills her. He then says he regrets what he has done and orders the lovers to be buried in a single grave, with the lady at the top because "she came of the better ...
Bible: Song of Songs 8:7: A Many-Splendoured Thing: Han Suyin: Francis Thompson, "The Kingdom of God" The Mermaids Singing: Val McDermid: T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" The Millstone: Margaret Drabble: Bible: Matthew 18:6: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: Agatha Christie: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott ...
The band Hollywood Undead based a song on the poem, "Paradise Lost", as it is member Johnny 3 Tears's favorite poem/book. Their song "S.C.A.V.A." also appears to be based on the poem. Dr Chair's 2001 album Witter and Beard has a track entitled "Paradise Lost". Nick Cave's songs "Song of Joy" and "Red Right Hand", mention Paradise Lost and ...
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.
The poem has been translated into most modern Indian languages and many European languages. There is a German rendering which Goethe read by F. H . van Dalberg. Dalberg's version was based on the English translation done by William Jones published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society , Calcutta in 1792.