A reading of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through c...
A reading of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised 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 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 revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Thanks for posting such a good reading. I have only come to T.S. Eliot recently and I have been struggling with the "Wasteland" and the "Four Quartets" This reading demonstrated the quality of Eliot's writing.
Thanks, Peter. I started reading some of Eliot's work after you posted a comment on another video where you said you've been reading him. A few years ago, I read his critical essay on Hamlet, and I think it inappropriately biased me against him. But his poetry really is beautiful, and this poem is incredible.
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Regards, Peter