| These lines begin the famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), by English poet T. S. Eliot. Prufrock, the poem’s narrator, feels split between his sensitive, poetic feelings and his outer behavior, which is frozen with inaction. In this poem Eliot ponders the spiritual vacuum of contemporary society, describing what he sees as a spiritual death among the living. For this and other works, such as his long poem in five parts The Waste Land (1922), Eliot is considered one of the most important poets and literary critics of the 1900s. |
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