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Prufrock and Other Observations

by Eliot Thomas Stearns

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A first collection of poems by Thomas Stearns Eliot, an Anglo-American twentieth century poet, playwright, and literary critic. Published in 1917. It includes the first important work of the author - a lyric “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock”, 1911-1913, which gave the name to this volume. Eliot began as a poet of despair, expressing his deep disgust for the world of bourgeois platitude. His poetry has the seal of bitter disappointment with the reality. Eliot creates a portrait of a hero, who lacks his individual traits being a parody of insipid stereotypes of the liberal humanistic way of thinking. “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock”, appearing to be a milestone of the twentieth century poetry, describes an obliging, deferential courtier, painfully indecisive and stumbling over his words.

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...overwhelming question . . . Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, And seeing that it was a soft October night, Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and...