Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The

[ proo-frok ]

noun

1. a poem (1917) by T. S. Eliot.

Example Sentences

Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the narrator famously recalls, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

From Salon

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the first of his poems to garner widespread attention, does so from the get-go with the shocking conceit of its opening lines: “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table. . . . ”

From The New Yorker

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator writes of having measured out his life in coffee spoons.

From Slate

He published popular poems like "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock", "The Hollow Men" and "Four Quartets."

From US News

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the portrait of an aging man reviewing a life frittered away between timid hopes and lost opportunities: For I have known them all already, known them all, Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons.

From Time Magazine Archive