In the ninth verse of his song " Desolation Row", Bob Dylan references Eliot and Ezra Pound "fighting in the captain's tower". The song by the band Mumford & Sons, " There Will Be Time", borrows its title and part of its chorus from the poem: "And indeed there will be time". Tori Amos sings "Heard the eternal footman / Bought himself a bike to race" in her song " Pretty Good Year." Sting sings in the song " Bring on the Night" on The Police 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc, "The afternoon has gently passed me by, the evening spreads itself against the sky" which evokes: "Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky".īo Burnham opens his song "Repeat Stuff" by saying "Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table. " Afternoons & Coffeespoons" (1993), a song by the Canadian pop rock group Crash Test Dummies, is built on references to the poem, and namedrops Eliot himself. įrank Turner references Prufrock in the song title "I knew Prufrock before he got famous" on his 2008 album Love Ire & Song. James McMurtry sings "I measure out my life in coffee grounds" in his song "Charlemagne's Home Town" on the 2005 album Childish Things, a variation of the verse "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons". There is also a forty-minute video and musical adaptation by the American rock band Heresy (see Music).Īnswering Eliot's query, "Do I dare to eat a peach?", The Allman Brothers Band titled their 1972 album Eat A Peach. Among others, we may find Jeffrey Martin's, Patty Arroyo's, Christopher Scott's, Laura Serivans's and Yulin Kuang's adaptations. In the BBC TV Serial Bird of Prey (1982), 'Prufrock' is proposed as the codename for the secret plan to murder civil servant Henry Jay (played by Richard Griffiths), suggested by his corrupt senior officer Tony Hendersly (played by Jeremy Child).īesides these film references, there are several short video adaptations and animations of this poem that are available online. In the film Mike's Murder (1984), Philip Green (played by Paul Winfield) paraphrases from the poem in describing the title character, Mike Chuhutsky (played by Mark Keyloun): "He was always preparing a face to meet the faces that he met." The film It Follows (2014) features a diegetic reading of three stanzas of the poem. That scene was later used in the director's derivative experimental film Return Return, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010. The film Saturn Returns (2009) features a diegetic reading of the poem. In the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2011), Gil ( Owen Wilson) mentions the poem to T. The film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) directed by Patricia Rozema takes its title from a line in the poem as does the film Eat the Peach (1986), directed by Peter Ormrod. The poem is quoted several times, by various characters, in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). Alfred Prufrock" is often referenced in popular culture.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |