Prufrock and Other Observations (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of… (vuoden 2001 painos)

This collection stands the test of time 100 years later

One hundred years after they appeared, these poems still resonate both in their diction and stance of social criticism. I return again and again to reread Eliot ( )

I am not a fan of most poetry, but a friend of mine loves T.S. Eliot's poems, so I decided to give Eliot's works a try. I enjoyed some of the phrases and descriptions he used in this work of poetry, but it did not turn me into a T.S. Eliot fan. ( )

I love Preludes and Prufrock, two of my all-time favorites. Others are not so impressive. Portrait of a Lady is beautiful in its language but otherwise bland. Rhapsody on a Windy Night is more or less a weaker, for me, version of Preludes.

Nothing in the collection touches the vividness and power of expression shown in Prufrock and Preludes, but those two poems alone make the book fairly good. ( )

Early poems by Eliot. The most significant of these being the much-anthologised title poem. Eliot was one of the most important poets writing in English in the twentieth century, and his younger self shows a power and a perception that are extraordinary. ( )

I admit that T.S. Eliot confuses me and I have a difficult time understanding his poetry. Saying that, I do love the way he uses the words. Though I may not fully understand what he is saying, the image reception is pretty clear.

I love this passage from 'Rhapsody on a Windy Night':

Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium. ( )