Prufrock and Other Observations
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
—The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (l. 51).
T.S. Eliot
Prufrock and Other Observations
T.S. Eliot
This collection of poems from Poems (1920) contains one of Eliot’s first and most well-known poems, namely, the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, in which he examines, through the introspections of the narrator, the emptiness and soulless quality of the bleak social world surrounding him.
Contents
For Jean Verdenal, 1889–1915
mort aux Dardanelles
mort aux Dardanelles
la quantitate
Puote veder del amor che a te mi scalda,
Quando dismento nostra vanitate
Trattando l’ombre come cosa salda.
NEW YORK: A.A. KNOPF, 1920
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011