Sean Kelly wrote a poem parodying this character in which people “[burn] the files of bureaus and committees.” A poem originally titled “[this character] Among the Women” had its final title borrowed from a Kipling poem about Har Dyal. This character travels “narrow streets” in a “Pervigilium” extracted from a poem in which he, despite not being a prophet, has seen himself “grow[ing] slightly bald” and “seen the (*) eternal Footman hold [his] coat, and snicker.” This character describes having “measured out [his] life with coffee spoons” and “mermaids singing, each to each,” and “women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” in a poem where he asks “Do I dare to eat a peach?” For 10 points, name this title character of a “Love Song” by T. S. Eliot. ■END■
ANSWER: J. Alfred Prufrock [accept “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; accept “Prufrock’s Pervigilium”; prompt on J. Alfred; prompt on J. Edgar Hoover by asking “who did his name replace in that poem’s title?”]
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