American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1309 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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The idea
Published in nineteen fifteen, the poem follows a timid, ageing man through an evening he cannot commit to, worrying about his hair, his trousers and whether he dares eat a peach, and opens with an evening spread against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table.
In practice
An evening, etherised on a table.
Where people slip
The love song is never sung to anyone.
Your place on the trail
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