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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This collection stands the test of time 100 years later
One hundred years after they appeared, these poems still resonate both in their diction and stance of social criticism. I return again and again to reread Eliot - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am not a fan of most poetry, but a friend of mine loves T.S. Eliot's poems, so I decided to give Eliot's works a try. I enjoyed some of the phrases and descriptions he used in this work of poetry, but it did not turn me into a T.S. Eliot fan.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I love Preludes and Prufrock, two of my all-time favorites. Others are not so impressive. Portrait of a Lady is beautiful in its language but otherwise bland. Rhapsody on a Windy Night is more or less a weaker, for me, version of Preludes.
Nothing in the collection touches the vividness and power of expression shown in Prufrock and Preludes, but those two poems alone make the book fairly good. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Early poems by Eliot. The most significant of these being the much-anthologised title poem. Eliot was one of the most important poets writing in English in the twentieth century, and his younger self shows a power and a perception that are extraordinary.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I hate to rate this book because I am not a poetry reader by nature. Some of the poetry was thought provoking but most of it was blah. I would rather read a book that pulls me in than a poem that makes me contemplate. I will try other poetry books in the future because I think I would like to understand it more.
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Title: Prufrock and Other Observations
Author: T. S. Eliot
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PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
By T. S. Eliot
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems appeared first in Poetry
and Others
Contents
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an 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