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

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

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

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