Plip Plop

Dr. Walrus

Suspended In The Sunshine

Slaka

‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' written by T.S. Eliot and read by Anthony Hopkins. 

"Do I dare 
Disturb the universe?	
In a minute there is time	
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.	

For I have known them all already, known them all:	
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, 
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." 

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;	
Am an attendant lord, one that will do	
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,	
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,	
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;	
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;	
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous -	
Almost, at times, the Fool."

[Stanza 6/7; lines 45-51 + Stanza 15; lines 111-119] 

Originally published in 1915 in 'Poetry; A Magazine of Verse'

Joseph Murray