The Daily Poem Podcast
The Daily Poem
T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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The Pope of Russell Square | Commonweal Magazine

Have you measured out your life in coffee spoons? Feeling like a pair of ragged claws today? Afraid to eat messy food while other people are watching? Or are you just channeling a little too much Polonius? If so, today’s poem–the classic modernist anthem of insecurity and isolation (and mermaids)–will feel very familiar. Happy reading!

(And for an even better reading of this poem, you should discover Jeremy Irons reading Eliot’s complete poems.)

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