This is a repeating event20 October 2024 4:00 pm
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
Event Details
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
Written when the poet was just 22, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“, was the first of T.S. Eliot’s poems to be published (in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse).
Acclaimed today as a modernist masterpiece, the poem is glorious to read aloud but sometimes elusive in its meaning – Eliot himself described the work as a ‘drama of literary anguish’. The character of Prufrock is a tragi-comic hero (or perhaps anti-hero) and, as readers, we work at untangling the literal from the symbolic to understand what it is he wants to say.
One of the challenges of studying poetry is not just to read it but to hear it. As we examine this poem we will read it aloud together, discuss its imagery, intention and effect and consider what insights it offers into human experience.
JOINING DETAILS:
- Two meeting study (on Zoom) led by Sean Forester
- Sundays, 4.00-6.00 pm (UK), 13 & 20 October
- £60 for two meetings, including opening notes and resources
- Participants are welcome to use any edition of the poem as long as it has line numbers for reference.
