• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
(SUB)TEXT Literature and Film Podcast

(SUB)TEXT Literature and Film Podcast

Analysis of a book, movie, play, or poem.

  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Contact

June 21, 2021

Disturbing the Universe in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot: Part 1

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/subtext-21-06-21-prufrock-eliot.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

It was T. S. Eliot’s first published poem. Written when he was only in his early 20s, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” rode the crest of the wave of literary Modernism, predated World War I, and presaged an age of indecision and anxiety. The poem is the dramatic interior monologue of the title character, a middle-aged man whose passivity and ambivalence are threaded with artistic allusions, epigrammatic observations, and meditations on the nature of time, the fraudulence of relationships, and the risks of eating a peach. Should Prufrock dare disturb the universe? Should we? Wes & Erin analyze.

The conversation continues on our after-show (post)script. Get (post)script episodes by becoming a paid subscriber at Patreon or directly on the Apple Podcasts app. Patreon subscribers also get early access to ad-free regular episodes.

This podcast is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Visit AirwaveMedia.com to listen and subscribe to other Airwave shows like Good Job, Brain and Big Picture Science.

Email sales@advertisecast.com to enquire about advertising on the podcast.

Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Android | RSS

Thanks to Nick Ketter for the audio editing on this episode.

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Episodes

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe and Follow

Subscribe on Android Spotify

Rate and Review

Subscribing to Bonus Content

This podcast is a labor of love, but even love’s labors are lost when time is money and money is a necessity. So it’s always a good time to help keep us going. If you subscribe on Patreon, you will get bonus episodes and other content, including responses to listener email and our after-show (post)script. You can also just make a one-time donation. It takes a lot of work to prepare to have a high-level discussion, every one to two weeks, of a new text. So if you enjoy or benefit from the show, please chip in. But in any case, thank you for listening!

Updates by Email

The Meaning of All This

(sub)Text is a podcast about the human condition, and what we can learn about it from the greatest inventions of the human imagination: fiction, film, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh explore life’s big questions by conducting a close reading of a text or film and co-writing an audio essay about it in real time.

The Conversation Continues

How to Listen

You can find us on the Podcasts app on your iPhone; on Spotify or by using our RSS feed on other podcast apps. Subscribing on Patreon will give you a custom feed that includes (post)script and all bonus content. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to email updates.

Search the Archives

Find Us On

Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyAndroidiHeartRadioStitcherRSS

Copyright © 2023 · (sub)Text · Log in