Word: prufrocks
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...police did arrive in 15 minutes but dismissed the issue. The Cabot student, who in a later e-mail dubs himself the "Alfred and Melinda Prufrock Professor of Common Decency," concludes his e-mail by declaring...
Here comes a great course offered by [name redacted], Alfred and Melinda Prufrock Professor of Common Decency at Harvard University: Common Decency 10 - How to Ask for Help (no 101's at Harvard, that is for inferior schools. Thanks to the genuine numbering system, Harvard is the best college in the country...
...20th century saw the rise of Modernism and brilliant but difficult and allusive writers like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. (Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in Poetry magazine.) Poems became less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...
...where I go from here. Will this imaginary entry be an ironic prelude to future greatness like that of Wordsworth, or that drop-out in my father’s freshman facebook, William Gates? Or is this entry representative of a trend? Will I be a Proust or a Prufrock...
...works filled with angst-ridden protagonists of privileged education, disillusioned but well-meaning idealists in search of greater Truth and Beauty. Were we like Quentin Compson, confused, disenchanted rowers ultimately propelled by our own heightened consciousness to a dire end (near the Weekes footbridge no less)? Or J. Alfred Prufrock (coming and going, speaking of the Michelangelo we had learned so assiduously in our Literature and Arts B class), worried about physical appearance, afraid to eat a peach? Or were we more like Amory Blaine, our reliance on the Office of Career Services indicative of "a new generation dedicated more...