About the Author
What movement was T.S. Elliot apart of?
Modernist Movement
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”
Metaphor
Who is the author of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
T.S. Eliot
What is it called to have a fear of poetry?
Metrophobia
Where was T.S. Eliot born?
St. Louis Missouri
“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo”
Allusion
What language is the first section from the poem?
Italian
How many words does the longest poem ever have?
1.8 million
What does the "T.S." in T.S. Eliot stand for?
Thomas Stearns
”Beneath the music from a farther room
So how should I presume?”
Couplet
When was the poem published?
1915
What is the shortest poem ever written?
Muhammad Ali’s two-word poem: ‘Me We’
What year did T.S. Eliot win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
1948
“Streets that follow like a tedious argument.”
Simile
When was this poem first written?
(Not published)
1910
What is the name of the oldest poem ever written?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
How old was T.S Eliot when he wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
22 years old (Published when he was 27)
“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes.”
Personification
What is the level 3 of the poem?
Slef doubt, isolation, and the struggle for self-identity
Who was the first poet to win a Nobel Peace Prize in Literature?
Sully Prudhomme