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...From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, Monica Lewinsky's favorite poem...
...educated in English and European literature and in Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, he fled--in his mid 20s--the career in philosophy awaiting him at Harvard, and moved to England. There he married (disastrously), met the entrepreneurial Ezra Pound and, while working at Lloyds Bank, brought out Prufrock and Other Observations. Five years later, after a nervous breakdown and a stay in a Swiss sanatorium in Lausanne, he published The Waste Land. Modern poetry had struck its note...
...annoyed Eliot that The Waste Land was interpreted as a prophetic statement: he referred to it (somewhat disingenuously) as "just a piece of rhythmical grumbling." Yet World War I had intervened between the writing of most of the poems included in Prufrock and the composition of The Waste Land; and in a 1915 letter to Conrad Aiken, Eliot had said, "The War suffocates me." Whether or not Eliot had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines. Nothing could have been further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than...
Given this tense atmosphere of sexual confusion, it's no wonder that students compare themselves to the character in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock who hysterically asks, "Do I dare to eat a peach...
...pleased to announce that T.S. Eliot has joined our Poets' Corner. For $20,000, J. Alfred Prufrock will ask himself, "Do I dare to eat a Snickers bar?" For $40,000, he will answer...