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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 .
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 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.
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.
A detached tone, or an opposite tone than the reader would expect, are sometimes purposely employed to elicit more of a response. In the opening lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T. S. Eliot quickly sets a certain tone, and then creates effect by juxtaposing it with a very different tone: Let us go then, you and I,
T. S. Eliot in 1920, in a photo taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., [4]: pp.50–51 after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922). [5]
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
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]