Word: prufrocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking work that opened with six lines of Italian and then proceeded: "Let us go then, you and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table ..." Nothing quite like T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" had ever appeared before. The expatriate gentleman from St. Louis and the lady from Chicago put each other...
...such contributions between the covers of a single anthology ought to produce something like essence of attar. It does not, as former Poetry Editor Daryl Hine admits in his introduction: "Much of what has appeared in Poetry, early and late, is mediocre, and seems more so today." Aside from "Prufrock," the magazine published only one other great poem: Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning," which survived even Harriet Monroe's rather highhanded editing and rearranging of its stanzas. But the value of The "Poetry" Anthology does not rest on its Parnassian heights. Flipping through its pages is like watching time...
...success of the dancers is short lived, and the dance ends on a pessimistic note. The pretty images become distorted. The dancers assume a futile scuttle across the stage, inspired by Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...
Ricks says Dylan is comparing the Titanic to modernism a vessel that seemed so promising for twentieth century poetry, but instead floundered miserably. The image of mermaids is lifted from the last lines of Eliot's "Prufrock." Dylan is not simply making fun of the cerebral poets and identifying himself with the more usual creature Ricks pointed out that Dylan's style is an thing but calypso...
Music from the Farther Room is the year's first production at the Ex. It's an original that is rumored to contain a musical version of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". At the Ex tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night...