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Episode 50 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot, "Like a poem etherised upon a table" - Poem Discussion


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Join Nathan and Adrian as we discuss The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot. We discuss rhyme, how the poem applies to today and T.S Eliot's approach to composing poems.


00:00-Introduction


03:45-Social anxiety as a theme of the poem


09:45-On learning "etiquette" 


11:21-Applying the poem to today's time


18:46-What reading T.S Eliot's poetry feels like


20:36-Our personal approaches to writing poems


25:22-20th Century modernism 


 29:21-Closing thoughts


https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

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