The curious style of the poem was a result of some surprising influences. (It’s worth it alone for the poem that bears the glorious title, ‘While You Were Absent in the Lavatory’).Ĥ. Eliot Poems, 1909-1917, after the name Eliot originally gave to the little notebook of poems he compiled in his early years (though he later crossed out the title), the book is a fascinating insight into Eliot’s evolution as a poet and a book that Eliot fans should not be without. Titled Inventions of the March Hare: T.S. ‘Prufrock’s Pervigilium’ was not published until 1996, when Eliot’s early, previously unpublished poetry appeared. A 38-line section, titled ‘Prufrock’s Pervigilium’ (after the ‘Pervigilium Veneris’, a late Latin poem about the Roman goddess Venus), was originally meant to be part of the poem but was excised by Eliot before ‘Prufrock’ appeared in print. Alfred Prufrock’ had an interesting section that was cut out of the final version. The original draft of ‘The Love Song of J. But Eliot began to write the poem when he was just 21 years old, in February 1910, and worked on it sporadically over the next few years before he finally got it into print. In fact, as we’ve just seen, it was first published two years earlier, in Poetry magazine. The common belief is that ‘Prufrock’ first appeared in 1917, when Eliot published it at the head of his first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations. Eliot actually began work on the poem some five years before it was first published. For Jane she will do both as the work continues in order to meet the societal standards of beauty in Seoul, by preparing her face, so it looks presentable to those around her and to cover her thoughts and feelings about living in a country that in some aspects is so foreign compared to the United States, where she grew up. 'Prepare a face' has a double meaning, as it can mean to literally cover up one's face with makeup, or to hide how you truly feel from others by figuratively 'putting on a mask' to cover how one feels about living in a new environment. The lines also serve to foreshadow the unfortunate reality that Jane will have to prepare a face when meeting these new faces in order to assimilate to this new society. Alfred Prufrock, she is looking for a fresh start from her previous life in New York. These two lines from Eliot's piece serve to mark the beginning of a change in scenery for the character Jane, as she will know be in a new setting in Seoul, South Korea, where just like J. Those lines state, "There will be time, there will be time/To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"(lines 26-27). In Patricia Park's Re Jane, the author includes two lines from Eliot's poem on page 131, Part II of her work. He desires a fresh start, but throughout the piece he encounters a problem, he does not know where to begin. Lonely and loveless, he knows that he is ageing and measures his life in coffee spoons while his hair turns thin. Alfred Prufrock is the protagonist in this piece, who has witnessed the seedier and darker side of life. Eliot's piece captures a changing society and consciousness perfectly, with WWI occurring in the near future and the struggle for leadership, causing the ways people lived to be altered, as well as, their thoughts and what they loved. Alfred Prufrock is a short, moody, repetitious monologue of the thoughts of a man who searches for love and meaning amongst an uncertain twilight world. This poem is considered to be one of the first modernist poems.
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