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

Prufrock with Music

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.

Ronald Brooks Kitaj

If Not, Not

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

Willem Dafoe reading from 4 Quartets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktb8EiLc2WI&feature=related