Poem love song1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() Lines from the poem crop up everywhere from The Shining to Under the Dome to the Detective Bill Hodges series. It’s not reported anywhere, really, but Stephen King is obsessed with Prufrock. Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsĪnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shellsīut it was not until recent years, when I began to glut myself on the works of Stephen King, that I actually understood the poem. Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, When the evening is spread out against the sky And as suburban teenager, I found a thrilling sense of escapism in the words, even if they were not intended as such: Eliot would go on to pen classics like 1922’s “The Wasteland” and 1939’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, which was adapted to the Broadway stage in 1981 by Andrew Lloyd Webber-but we won’t hold Cats against him.Īs an aspiring actress, I decided I wanted to learn all the words to Prufrock for audition purposes. The poem appeared in the 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, launching the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He ends the poem watching sirens singing on the beach, but concludes that they will never sing to him, thus affirming his solitary existence. Alfred is isolated and lonely, incapable of making a decision or fully living in his life. Alfred Prufrock” to my bored cats.įor those who had a life as teens, “Prufrock” is Eliot’s first published poem-in it, the titular J. on a Sunday morning and I was 17, sprawled across my cool bedroom floor, reciting lines from T.S. ![]()
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