Word: prufrocks
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...book squats a huge hairy fly-no doubt attracted by the offal inside. There is Mrs. Macklin, a black widow in sweaty corsets, who works days as caretaker of a dreary British office and prowls the night looking for someone to take care of her; Mr. Gender, an amorous Prufrock with boils; Miss Jeacock, a withered office virgin who lures a young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin, who wants him for herself. But he cannot face the supreme sacrifice...
...Enchanted Forest. For that generation, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was a shock-the bitter, bracing shock of recognition. Prufrock was simply the first modern poem. It abandoned romantic oratory for conversational speech, threw away stately "poetic" meters for the subtle syncopated rhythms of the jazz age, brought poetry out of the misty enchanted forest into the gritty reality of the modern city...
...exhilarations. Though he was born in St. Louis, the son of a wholesale grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published in his 20s. Looking back, the hunger for faith in Eliot's early poems now seems obvious and his religious development inevitable. In 1927-the same year he became a British subject-he was confirmed in the Church of England...
...loved light verse. He would lampoon his friends in clerihews, sometimes addressed letters in rhyme. He put normally light-verse techniques to deadly serious use in Prufrock, The Waste Land and elsewhere. Example...
Three second prizes of $25 each were awarded to Michael Ehrhardt '66, who presented "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, to Cheng-Teik Goh '65, who recited "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, and to Andreas W. Teuber '64, who delivered Glouster's speech from Act III of Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare...