The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the poem that marked the start of T. S. Eliot's career as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", also referred to as Prufrock, is one of the most anthologized 20th century poems in English. The poem is a dramatic monologue, a form that had been much favored by Robert Browning, and uses the "stream of consciousness" literary technique.

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