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Blog for week 9!

Sorry these are so late!

#1

The title “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is very misleading, and is quite apparent from the start of the poem. The title makes the reader believe the poem will most likely be a happy poem about love, but from the first stanza it is quite obvious that this isn’t your average love poem, or perhaps not a love poem at all. The wording used in the poem creates very dark and dreary imagery, again not very common in poems about love. The language also seems to be set up almost is if it has no set path, like how people think. Lastly, there is not much of a rhyming scheme, which isn’t a very common occurrence in love poems. After reading the poem, the reader is left thinking “Is this a love song?”. Even after a second reading the answer still isn’t known, and only after much analyzing does the reader get begin to understand what the poem represents.

Hmmmm…interesting!

#2

I imagine that the poem could be about Margaret Atwood’s son drowning perhaps, but that’s obvious.  Perhaps it could have been about someone else’s son…who happened to be a lumberjack? More than that…I don’t really know! some of the lines of the poem don’t really seem to agree with my theories, such as “on a landscape stranger than Uranus / we have all been to and some remember.” We obviously haven’t all be lumberjacks…so this is somewhat strange. I suppose I’ll figure out what its about soon enough!

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