![]() On the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. The pages of a book in my hands would take The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of ![]() There’s the complex, elusive poet/musician Leonard Cohen, whose lyrics in “The Stranger Song,” just to mention one instance, mirror Eliot’s references to strangers (“I told you when I came I was a stranger”), to smoke (“there’s a highway that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder”), to the grand and gritty (“the holy game of poker”), to Eliot’s use of repetitions: I see echoes of “Prufrock” reverberating more obliquely in the culture, too. And a new generation is connected to “Prufrock” outside the classroom, with John Green’s Y.A.-fiction best-seller, The Fault in Our Stars, which contains a meaningful shout-out to the poem. You can even take toast and tea at the Prufrock Café in London or dine at the Prufrock Pizzeria in downtown Los Angeles. Edgar Hoover” in National Lampoon in the early 70s (“The agents call and call again/ Talking of Daniel Berrigan”) to Lauren Daisley’s “The Closest Jay Comes to a Love Song” in 2006 (“At the rager the chicks come and go/Talking about art or something, I don’t know”). Satirists, too, have had their way with it, from humorist Sean Kelly’s “The Love Song of J. There is Chuck D’s song “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” and Arcade Fire’s nod in “We Used to Wait” the entire poem has been set to music, by American composer John Craton. And, my personal favorite, Owen Wilson as Gil in Midnight in Paris, declares, “Prufrock is my mantra!” ( Annie Hall fans may see the continuity from Jeff Goldblum’s cry to his shrink over the phone, “I forgot my mantra!”) One could even view Allen’s To Rome With Love as an homage to the poem. I don’t want to look up at 50 and realize I measured out my fucking life with a coffee spoon.” In Love and Death (1975), one of Allen’s characters, pen in hand, cribs a few lines from the poem. In Celebrity (1998) Kenneth Branagh’s character agonizes, “I’m fucking Prufrock. He cited the poem in three pictures (two of which were released in the last decade). Alfred Prufrock” because of the way Eliot talks so freely about sex, but contrast with Decadence because of the main character’s ability to sleep with a multitude of women.The auteur with the most prevalent Prufrock references: Woody Allen. In conclusion, Decadence is evident in “The Love Song of J. This implies that the main character of this poem is sleeping around with many different women and is being called out by the narrator. For example, Eliot writes, “In the room the women come and go” (13) and “Is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?” (65-66). So, Eliot is avidly describing affairs as well as sexual acts that were outside of marriage, which was still against the Decadent times. However, what contrasts Decadence is that same idea: sexual acts were still somewhat reserved for marriage. ![]() This attitude is most certainly decadent because of the amoral attitude and inability to emotionally connect with one’s partner. This quote also indicates that the main character’s partner emphasizes the sexual act rather than the emotional relationship. 58-59).This line to me, puts emphasis on sexual dominance of the main character over all of his lovers. For example, Eliot writes, ” And when I am formulates, sprawling on a pin,when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall/ then how should I begin to spit out all of the butt-ends of my days and ways?” (ll. Alfred Prufrock” embodies this because of the multitude of different sexual references and Elliot alluding to sex in many different ways. Decadence was essentially the uprooting of those Victorian values with an amoral attitude that focused on more of the sexual things that were not talked about at the time. Alfred Prufrock” is a poem that exemplifies the values of Victorian age Decadence.
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