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Prufrock
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The character through whom the talent of T.S. *Eliot was introduced to the world. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was the first of his mature poems to be published (in the American magazine Poetry in 1915), and it became the title poem of his first book, Prufrock, and other observations (1917). The nervous indecision of the middle-aged narrator is expressed in Eliot's characteristic blend of lyricism and mundane detail. Prufrock recognizes that he is not Prince Hamlet but at best an attendant lord, and goes on to lament: I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
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