English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1528 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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The idea
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," published in nineteen fifteen through Pound, is a dramatic monologue of a timid man: the evening is spread out "Like a patient etherised upon a table," and he has "measured out my life with coffee spoons."
In practice
A timid speaker, an etherised evening.
Where people slip
The "love song" is never sung.
Your place on the trail
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