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#LovePrevails Day 11: Classic #LoveSong - my full post of this classic TS Eliot poem: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7iR

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”

And last, but never least, the tea I'll need to get through all these books. 😋

Love this illustrated little book from @Obviousstate that I got myself for Christmas 💕

Maybe an obvious choice, but @Cathythoughts reminds me with her posts of how much I love Eliot ❤️ This is one of my favourites.

#sea #PoetryMatters @LazyDays

#love #gratitude30 A great love story (among other things) is in this wonderful book

“The yellow #fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap
And seeing that it was a soft October night
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep”

#LitsyClassics @Sarah83 #PoetryMatters @LazyDays

This was the Obvious State August Blind Date (I‘m posting without spoilers because the original one sold out, but they added a few more due all the social media coverage and I snagged one).

You get 2 copies of the poem booklet, an art print, 2 mini notebooks, bookmark, pencil, and lollipop. I love their graphics! 🖤I ordered their Cool Poe/Cat mug too (and they threw in some more pretty bookmarks). I‘ve ordered Sept too. #ObviousState

THANK YOU @catebutler for the post about Obvious State and their “Love Song” book mail. I ordered a package and it arrived today. I love everything about all of it! I‘m designing a literary tattoo with lines from this, my fav poem...I may incorporate some of these gorgeous drawings! This is why I love Litsy - not only do I get great book recos but I learn about opportunities like reviewing for Net Galley and fun lit treasures! #littensarethebest

Happy mail day indeed, when the Blind Date with @Obviousstate shows up in the mail! I love that they‘ve reimagined T. S. Eliot‘s “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, with their gorgeous literary illustrations. I recently came across a mention of this poem in my readings, and jotted it down to check out. So this is perfect timing. I‘m planning on savouring this lovely petite book with a cheeky cup of tea later this morning. Are you a poetry lover?

Look what a lovely surprise came in the mail for me today from my husband! Obvious State is doing a new “blind date” project, with specially illustrated editions of short classics and lots of accompanying goodies. 🖤

#quotsyaug18 #trail

Mood.

"I have heard the mermaids singing , each to each . I do not think that they will sing to me."

T.S.Eliot, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

#tseliot #thelovesongofjalfredprufrock

The awesomeness continues..

“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;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?”
#beautifulwriting #readingresolutions @Jess7 #posterlove #print #poetry

"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?"

Prufrock is my absolute favorite poem and written by one of my favorite writers. T.S. Eliot, is from my hometown, St Louis, and I love the cat allusions like in this passage. Eliot has said there was an alleycat by his house and these passages in Prufrock are based upon his memory of that cat. A friend of my mom‘s owned the St Louis house where Eliot grew up and it is super freaking cool to see that same alley and almost see the cat still there.

Oh the hundred visions and revisions! I know it well. 🙄
Cartoon by Julian Peters. Complete Illustrated version available at JulianPeterscomics.com
#tea #quotsydec17 @TK-421

Poetry March Madness bracket at my daughter's showcase today. This was my winner--a favorite since I was her age. (Whitman's "O Captain My Captain" was a very close second.)

Rainy days make me want to curl up with all the books I disliked reading in college. I guess appreciation for classics is something that comes with age ... or maybe wisdom? #thelovesongofjalfredprufrock #tselliot #poetry #quoteoftheday

C'mon now - that is frigging BRILLIANT! Eliot was kind of the original hipster, writing poetry about an alienated guy frustrated with routine life, dreaming big, with no plan of action. He even references cuffing his pants and doing his hair a certain way to look cooler. Hipster, in the best possible way. He did something that was new at the time, and he did it brilliantly. But I thought that before it was cool. You probably haven't heard of it.

These are some of my new favorite lines in poetry.

I saw @DebinHawaii 's bookmark and had to go re-read this. I can still recite the first few stanzas, but I never memorized the whole thing. The part about the mermaids was referenced in a book I read once when I was young, and I loved it, so it blew my mind when I finally read this poem. Now every time I read that line, I get the same feeling that book gave me. I wish I could remember what it was!

Teaching Eliot's 'Prufrock' and Joyce's 'Eveline' in my Survey of British Literature class today. Let's see what the students think of Modernism. :)

My fun new shirt with text by my favorite poet from Litographs. Amazing customer service - separately sent me 4 shirts at their expense until finally got size right. Can't wait to wear it!

do I dare
disturb the universe?
in a minute there is time
for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse

I've mentioned this elsewhere a ton today, but I just discovered this poem and got hung up on it. I don't actually know how much Eliot I've read, either