J alfred prufrock biography of william

poem by T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by the American-born British poet T. S.

Eliot (–). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing the poem in February , and it was first published in the June issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse^[2] at the instigation of fellow American expatriate Ezra Pound.

It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem chapbook entitled Prufrock and Other Observations in ^[1] At the time of its publication, the poem was considered outlandish,^[3] but the poem is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic shift in poetry from late 19th-century Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to Modernism.

The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri^[4] and makes several references to the Bible and other literary works—includin