yulinkuang: I Didn’t Write This is a new literary adaptation…
I Didn’t Write This is a new literary adaptation series in which I adapt and direct excerpts of poetry and literature written by other people. Basically one long commercial for why we read. My goal is to get parts of poetry and literature stuck in your head like a good song. Or John Mulaney’s standup.
Sometimes I say things at the end of the videos; you don’t have to watch those parts. New episodes every Friday, until we run out of world enough and time. Subscribe, maybe?
We’re using “yulinisworking” as the official Tumblr tag on this series, because IDWT and “I Didn’t Write This” get a decent amount of outside traffic as it is.
I Didn’t Write This – Ep. 4: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
Directed by Yulin Kuang
Starring Mary Kate Wiles and Sean Persaud
Shot by Zack Wallnau
Styled by Julika Engols
Sound by Justin Lee DixonThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is quite a long poem, but one of my first favorites. I apologize to my English major friends if your favorite lines didn’t make it into this adaptation – my inner Prufrock fan was screeching at every cut.
In this Yale lecture, “Prufrock” is described as a love song written with the head, not the heart, which is part of what I think makes the poem so strange and wonderful and unexpectedly relatable. There’s an idea that permeates throughout Prufrock about hesitation and indecision that I especially love, eventually arriving at the question of “Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?”
Reblog and tell me your thoughts about the poem, about your favorite lines, about this adaptation, I would love to hear them!
Full text of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Much love,
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