Did T.S. Eliot write about love?

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, commonly known as “Prufrock”, is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965).

What is T.S. Eliot most famous poem?

The Waste Land
The Waste Land is not Eliot’s greatest poem, though it is his most famous.

Do you dare to eat a peach?

Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

What did T. S. Eliot do to his wife?

Valerie Eliotm. 1957–1965
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliotm. 1915–1947
T. S. Eliot/Wife

What is J Alfred Prufrock’s problem?

Prufrock’s major problem is a problem of existential anguish. Prufrock’s doubts about aging at a dinner party are merely one example of this anguish, and this party brings his psychology into sharp focus when the reader examines closely the moment in which the poem’s events occur.

What is Eliot’s masterpiece?

Eliot regarded Four Quartets as his masterpiece, and it is the work that most of all led him to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: “Burnt Norton” (1936), “East Coker” (1940), “The Dry Salvages” (1941) and “Little Gidding” (1942).

How many times did T. S. Eliot marry?

Trevelyan proposed three times, but Eliot explained that the idea of marriage, after Vivienne, was a “nightmare”. In 1957, at the age of 68, Eliot married his 30-year-old secretary, Valerie, who had worked for him for eight years.

How did T. S. Eliot meet his second wife?

Valerie Eliot met her future husband in 1949, two years after Eliot’s long-estranged first wife died in a sanatorium. She had come to work as a secretary at his publishing house, Faber and Faber, but her interest was more than professional.

What is the overwhelming question in the love song?

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” I believe Prufrock’s overwhelming question is a marriage proposal because of the severity of his indecisiveness and inner debate of whether or not to ask it.

What is the yellow smoke in Prufrock?

In an article published in The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, John Hakac argues that the yellow fog in the first section of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a symbol for love itself, and therefore a significant driving force of the poem.