Comments on: The Love Song of Hey Prof

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 19:40:37 +0000

I listened to a fine recording of Jeremy Irons reading this poem yesterday. It is, as the professor rightly argues, open to various interpretations. And that is the joy of poetry.

By: RANJU DODUM

RANJU DODUM — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:55:11 +0000

There’s a lot about this poem that I love and have my own ideas/theories about its interpretations. Those are for another day. Factually though, while the poem was professionally published in 1915, Eliot had already written it by 1911. The war would start the next year and, IMO, this does not connect to post-war feelings if the war in reference is WW One.

By: Shaun Yang

Shaun Yang — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 02:46:22 +0000

Reading this makes me hate this poem slightly less. Thank you.

P.S. I still hate it, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

By: Claudia Unadvised

Claudia Unadvised — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:31:01 +0000

“Why do students struggle so much with ‘reading against the grain’? Why do they willingly follow the opinion of the majority?” The same, alas, can be asked of adults. Because whether it’s accepting without question what the minister in the church is saying or the politician on the Internet, adults have been doing this same thing since time immemorial. As I read this piece, I wanted desperately to blame it on standardized testing and on the binary thinking social media is so fond of… until I had to admit that my own generation behaved the same way too. I think that’s why there are artists in the world. They are the ones that can live with ambiguity.