"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot (read by Sir Alec Guinness)

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"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot (read by Sir Alec Guinness)

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
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@mch12311969 11 ай бұрын

Arguably the best reading of this poem.

@massivecumshot 2 жыл бұрын

Guinness was at the age Prufrock was when he read this. It's informed with success and regret and a lifetime of love, loss, inquiry and observation of one's mortality.

@paulmuwadeeb2161 Жыл бұрын

I am reminded, sometimes. That we humans are capable of the sublime. And there is, hope.

@peterklus 8 ай бұрын

The most perfect diction in speech of any English language speaker in history. What a splendid actor he was, and what a perceptive human being! Dr Sudevan Wisconsin

@luisromovaldespino1598 3 жыл бұрын

TS Eliot wrote his poems to be read by Alec Guinness and nobody else

@todesque 8 ай бұрын

Yes and no. Jeremy Irons is masterful, too.

@mikeymikey8079 Ай бұрын

No argument, this is the best reading.

@rosemaryallen2128 Жыл бұрын

The perfect voice to enhance this elegy for a life dissipated on the trivial necessities of existence and tormented by its own self-knowledge.

@peterhixon371 10 ай бұрын

I love your description but don't think that his reading is good. Prufrock is lost and self deprecating and is only speaking to himself. He cares and worries about the triviality of his particular world and longs for a freedom of thought which could be examined and debated but with whom?

@rosemaryallen2128 10 ай бұрын

@@peterhixon371You raise an interesting point! But if a performance artist adheres to realism at the expense of projection, the result would lack impact. And, in this poem, Prufrock is obviously genteel, so the splendour of intonation is not unsuitable.

@derycktrahair8108 8 ай бұрын

We were lucky as smelly school boys to suffer Poetry.. in later life we appreciate it. Thanks for reminding us of how good those teachers were. "The burnt out ends of smoky days" can describe old age unless you're positive about it.

@bozorgmaneshrobertsohrabi6364 2 ай бұрын

Alec Guineness is great.

@fedykril108 2 жыл бұрын

I can only hear kenobi

@Hawkwood96 Жыл бұрын

*Anakin* , let us go then, you and I...

@thegrumpybeethoven Жыл бұрын

@@Hawkwood96 Would It Have Been Worth Wile After all, Master?

@ericthatsme Жыл бұрын

****SUBLIME***^

@amanwithnohands 7 ай бұрын

Crap. Horrible reading Why do people RUSH THIS? Ugh.

@Cor6196 6 ай бұрын

It IS rushed, and I really did miss whole lines as my brain paused to reflect for a moment and completely skipped over the next one! - but there is something about AG’s stunning diction that makes up for a lot - those exploding plosives - Puh, Buh - and the perfect vowels - that made me smile and even a few times laugh, and sometimes I need the to appreciate the comedic aspects of this poem. It can really be so funny but we all take it so seriously - like life itself, I suppose! 😜

@lemartin3827 5 ай бұрын

In the comments the youtubers come and go- talking with anonymous bravado

@trevorbailey1486 2 ай бұрын

@@lemartin3827 Eliot, despite being 'the man in the four-piece suit' as Virginia Woolf dubbed him, would approve. Thank you.