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  1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    7:08

  2. Portrait of a Lady

    6:20

  3. Preludes

    2:27

  4. Rhapsody on a Windy Night

    3:23

  5. Morning at the Window

    0:46

  6. The Boston Evening Transcript

    1:04

  7. Aunt Helen

    1:07

  8. Cousin Nancy

    0:49

  9. Mr. Apollinax

    1:36

  10. Hysteria

    1:12

  11. Conversation Galante

    1:16

  12. La Figlia Che Piange

    1:44

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) is a public domain work.

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A social visit becomes an ordeal of hesitation in the opening poem of T. S. Eliot's 1917 collection. J. Alfred Prufrock imagines the judgments others might make about his appearance and keeps postponing the words he wants to say. Drawing rooms, tea, street smoke and references to art sit beside his uneasy inner speech. The repeated phrases and shifts of image make his uncertainty audible, rather than explaining it from a distance.

The other poems extend that attention to speech, memory and city life. In "Portrait of a Lady," polite conversation about music and friendship meets a speaker's private resistance. "Preludes" moves through wet streets, coffee stands and rented rooms, while "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" lets street lamps prompt broken recollections. Readers interested in poetry shaped around restless thought and ordinary urban details will find short pieces whose voices often hesitate, contradict themselves or turn suddenly toward an unexpected image.

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T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was an American-born British poet, critic, and playwright who became the defining voice of literary modernism. Works such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets reshaped English poetry, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

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About 15 minutes
Pages
32
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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