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    Prufrock and Other Observations
    Prufrock and Other Observations
    Prufrock and Other Observations
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    Prufrock and Other Observations

    By T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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    Release dateApr 16, 2014
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    • 5/5
      This 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
    • 3/5
      I 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.
    • 3/5
      I 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.
    • 4/5
      Early 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.
    • 3/5
      I 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

    Release Date: August 27, 2008 [EBook #1459]

    Last Updated: January 25, 2013

    Language: English

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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

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