The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Here’s the text of the poem. Read it and then look at the following interpretations and uses of T.S. Eliot’s work.

Straight Prufrock-No Chaser, No Sweetening

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Prufrock with Music

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The Wasteland

This is from Apocalypse Now.

Notice how Kurtz is mining Eliot’s Modernism for themes that relate to the film, and the character.

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Ronald Brooks Kitaj

If Not, Not

The Painter said that this painting was inspired by “The Wasteland.”

Willem Dafoe reading from 4 Quartets

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