Did you have to read The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock in school?

[bobbieinok]

We had to read it in freshman English in college.

For 4 yrs you could crack up a group by intoning 'In the room the women come and go talking of Michaelangelo.'

[mbusby]

1. It's....

....J. Alfred Prufrock.

[bobbieinok]

3. Will change

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yes, though I don't remember specifically when.

The part I remember is:

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

It's a pretty weird poem, but in those days we were stoned a lot so we really appreciated its weirdness.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. "This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper

[elleng]

4. Not until I studied poetry in college.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Somewhere - sometime.........

I must have read it - I do remember the title.

Obviously made some kind of impression, huh?

[nolabear]

7. I didn't have to, but I did.

It’s a wonderful poem.

[Polly Hennessey]

8. I love the line,

“I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker....”

[bobbieinok]

15. That reminds me of Falstaff's line 'We have heard the chimes at midnight.'

Don't remember what play that line is in.

Even as a young college senior I found that a haunting line, an old man looking back on his youth.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I read it in college.

I had something of a "meh" reaction to it.

I think it personifies how things change, how in a different time things are appreciated differently, understood differently, and what was once thought of as profound is now, Meh.

[ailsagirl]

10. I have

Eliot was always hailed as a tremendous writer, though I had a little difficulty in warming up to him because I found his imagery peculiar (The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes...)

[zanana1]

11. It's one of my favorite poems. nt

[Paladin]

12. I still regard it as a great poem, 50 years later. (nt)

[Phentex]

13. Yes and it pays off during Jeopardy...

as it comes up from time to time.

[Wounded Bear]

16. "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each...

I do not think that they will sing to me."

Yeah, I remember that.