On Wednesday Mr Hamon introduced our class to a new poem. It has an unusual name for a romantic themed verse.
In reading this poem I felt the speaker had a sneaky, trickster side who invites us on a romantic walk down windy roads and point out that the evening looks like a surgical procedure. He keeps delaying and tried to hide something.
Another side is PruFrock the fool, whose twisted attempts to make us think he is a super slick, suave confident ladies' man, in fact, Mr. Bean would score better then he did. "AS IF"
Finally, we have the sad, honest man who realizes the jig is up and can't even convince himself of his own stories. Few lines at a time seem to let him lift his mask. He admits that he should have been
"a pair of ragged claws" and that he has seen "the moment of his greatness flicker" (lines 72,84).
Our average middle-class speaker who pretends to secretly control the world and he kind of suspects that he is a "ridiculous" and a "Fool" but could never fully admit it to himself (lines118-119).
Quote: "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo". (lines13-14). Rewinding motion is like watching the same scene over and over again. Like Dante's Inferno, where character repeat the same pointless motions endlessly as punishment for leading small, meaningless lives.
Yes Helene, I enjoyed the poem as well and want to congratulate you on your perception of the anaylasis of this poem..
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