This poem's title was stolen from a poem in Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills, and it was written in 1909 when its author was a grad student at Harvard.
This poem's title was stolen from a poem in Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills, and it was written in 1909 when its author was a grad student at Harvard. This work's narrator ponders how he was "smoothed by long fingers." It references Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" with the line "To have squeezed the universe into a ball." It ends by noting "human voices wake us, and we drown." Earlier its speaker points out he had "measured out my life with coffee spoons." Also containing the dreary line "In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo," this poem begins "Let us go then, you and I." For 10 points, name this meditative poem written by T.S. Eliot.
This poem's title was stolen from a poem in Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills, and it was written in 1909 when its author was a grad student at Harvard.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"