Story Euphoria 14: Prufrock

It’s easy to focus on the literary forms most conventionally associated with storytelling, like novels and short stories, but poetry has its own brand of storytelling power. This week’s podcast features The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem was first introduced to me many years ago by my English teacher, Mr. Stewart of Monticello, and over the years I have delighted in discovering something new every time I revisit it. In a mere 131 lines of delicious, rolling verse, Eliot manages to coax from scattered images and half-formed arguments the entirety of the title character’s life. Download and listen.

If you would like to read this and other poems by T.S. Eliot, you can follow along with the text I used at Project Gutenberg, check out a volume from your local library, or buy a copy for your home library:



Production Notes:
Creator: Amanda Haldy
Theme Music: Nye Nate by Roger Leighton
Incidental Music: Material for a Dream by Josep Anton Garcia Rami.
and Better Than Me by Celeste Astara.