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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing the poem in February 1910, and it was first published in ...
The New York progressive rock band Heresy performs a forty-minute musical and video adaptation of Eliot's poem, featuring lead vocalist Tony Garone. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was set to music by Tony Garone and Scott Harris. The video was made by Tony Garone himself, with illustrations by Julian Peters. [9] [10]
Afternoons & Coffeespoons. " Afternoons & Coffeespoons " is a song by Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies, released by Arista in June 1994 as the third single from the band's 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet. "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" has been called the band's most popular song amongst fans. [ 1] It is also one of their most successful ...
Dark Star. [edit] The chorus of the Grateful Dead classic song "Dark Star" features the lines "Shall we go them you and I while we can" which the lyricist Robert Hunter lifter from The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" The song was originally recorded in 1967 but a 23 minute live recording of the song from 27 Februarybecame a favourite of ...
"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, Gerontion, the Tiresias narrator of The Waste Land, and possibly the narrator of The Hollow Men). His narrator in this poem is a witness to historical change who seeks to rise above his historical moment, a man who, despite material wealth and prestige, has lost his spiritual bearings.
Gerontion. " Gerontion " is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 in Ara Vos Prec (his volume of collected poems published in London) and Poems (an almost identical collection published simultaneously in New York). [ 1] The title is Greek for "little old man," and the poem is an interior monologue relating the opinions and ...
Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: The single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment ...