Sweden has its own variation of this tradition; before a wedding, the brideâs mother gives her a gold coin to put in her right shoe and the brideâs father gives her a silver coin to put in her left shoe. The coins represent their wish that she will never be without.
There are a few rocks around that are 4.5 billion years old. Most meteorites are about that old too. The previous star that went nova and left us all these rocks and stuff pretty much cleared the area of older stuff. The Sun is a 3rd generation star.
So The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is totally a modernist poem. Its author, T.S. Eliot, was an American who moved to Britain in 1914. Eliot wrote most of Prufrock when he was 22 years old (!), in the years before the start of World War I. At that time, Britain was considered the most modern country in the world.