Posted 04-08-2008 at 09:45 PM by wheldon
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
When I first read this poem I was eighteen, at university, starting out on a degree in English literature. 20th century American poetry was a highlight for an eighteen year old, the lives and the poetry, the casting aside of tradition, of form and expression, of seeking a new way of saying something, of even endeavouring to say something new, to take literature on a new path.
I read this poem once and instantly knew that...
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