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4 hours toward my Big Fat Biology exam... I hear Beethoven tune ringing in my ear. Ouh Avram!
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Man down.
Man down Part 2.
Man sad when I go to school every morning or to see his step-dad.
Kids' poem wall pin up I made up within seconds.
My bike locked up in the thai restaurant because I was not sober the night before.
Mocha Martini? Unpleasant.
We peoples save baby squirrel.
Cheekbones protruding yet?
How about suck in my cheeks?
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Views on Prufrock: The Downside (Draft)
My men-bashing essay I wrote on Summer B 2009 for English literature class. Fun class indeed. Should be studying for my Biology exam but whatever.
I define “The Love of J. Alfred Prufrock” as a tribute to lonely virgin men; I see this poem as a representation of a flaw to Prufrock’s masculinity and confidence. Prufrock, who mirrors his author, is a man who has unaccomplished desires to be with a woman, any woman, to satisfy his sexual needs. Prufrock has all the essence to represent Elliot’s characters, as well as other men like himself, who has severe inferiority complexion issue. Being stuck in a period when women had already began to claim their superiority and control did not help him in his courtship pursuit. On top of that, he lived in England where he was put in an undesired limelight that gave him away as a young American who assimilated himself in the British lifestyle and who tried to fit in the classy “tea and toast” culture.
At 26, in a letter that he wrote to a friend, Aiken, he revealed the hardship of courting women and the shocking truth that he was still a virgin. Therefore, the sad fact that he is not experienced love-making with women would have influenced his way of viewing himself and how he felt exposed. The inspiration made the success of this poem he wrote to himself and people who are very similar to him. While some may find his poem comforting and helping them to feel less insecure about themselves and make them feel alone in this same courtship situation, I find this poem exploiting the unattractive attribute of men’s character and image. No self-respecting women would fall in love with men who are extremely insecure and have no confidence.
Prufrock’s low self-esteem lies behind the images that he uses to represent his weak character and personalities. The image of Polonius signifies the fool he is to allow others to be in control of him. In another words, he is co-dependent on other’s views on him, he is of no high authority and he does not mind being made use of evidently in this quote, “Advise the prince: withal. An easy tool. Deferential, glad to be of use”(114-115).
Even though he is not an authority figure, he feels pushed to the limelight because of his insecurity of his physical attributes, particularly his balding head. His communication skills probably put him in display as he describes, “Sprawling on a pin, when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall”(57-58). The image of an insect pinned to the wall roughly reveals that he is a target, and more than likely a black sheep whom everyone picks on because of his low self-esteem and overtly self-conscious behavior. Like Prufrock, Elliot is in the similar situation whereby being an American in the profound British society made him stand out from the rest.
Prufrock’s and Eliiot’s sense of self-valuing is not in compliment with the brilliant person he is intellectually. The people that Elliot is surrounded by do not fit well with the type of person he is. Somehow, having him as a black sheep in that society is a way of hinting to him that he is unwelcome. Also, it could be a way women do to tell him that he has no open opportunity to date them because they do not find him attractive. The rejection from the people around him influenced his way of behaving around them in probably the most awkward manner that he is being laughed at, and as the result, no one takes him seriously.
He sees himself as a loner and an independent cat, which wanders around and jumps from roof to roof and sleeps alone at the end of the night. He deliberately knows that he is consistently getting old. This misery he infests in himself and the vanishing hope he has for any women to be by his side pulled his confidence down to the bottom of the core of his heart. Ironic will be a word to describe this man who is great with words in his writings, and who should be able to sway and melt any women’s heart instantaneously with his wide vocabulary and charming words. Therefore Elliot and Prufrock are ridiculous to think so low of themselves.
Pruforck is a sad man who acts like a kid who likes a girl but does not tell her. Instead he teases her by pulling her pigtails and kicks her. Somehow he rubs her the wrong way and giving her the wrong signals. It does not work with grown women when he teases the women’s ways in mockery with the mentioning of their tea and toast lifestyle that includes pointless comments on artwork and being involved in countless tea parties. He mocks them of their imperfection: But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!(64). Besides that, he mocks them of their dress codes. Women in his world are like mermaids, the charmers of the sea, whom he is sure would not sing for a man like him.
If I were a mermaid, I would not sing to him either, His negative vibes would drown me, in spite of being a sea creature. His level of confidence is absurd. My life would be as miserable as the woman talked about in “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold because of the extensive negativity imparted in his conversations and character. One part of misery is in a ratio of three parts of happiness, therefore, for his thousands of misery would be a hell for me as it is for him.
Works Cited
Elliot, T. S., “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The Beford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 8th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 1222-1226
Arnold, Matthew, “Dover Beach”. The Beford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 8th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 878-879
I define “The Love of J. Alfred Prufrock” as a tribute to lonely virgin men; I see this poem as a representation of a flaw to Prufrock’s masculinity and confidence. Prufrock, who mirrors his author, is a man who has unaccomplished desires to be with a woman, any woman, to satisfy his sexual needs. Prufrock has all the essence to represent Elliot’s characters, as well as other men like himself, who has severe inferiority complexion issue. Being stuck in a period when women had already began to claim their superiority and control did not help him in his courtship pursuit. On top of that, he lived in England where he was put in an undesired limelight that gave him away as a young American who assimilated himself in the British lifestyle and who tried to fit in the classy “tea and toast” culture.
At 26, in a letter that he wrote to a friend, Aiken, he revealed the hardship of courting women and the shocking truth that he was still a virgin. Therefore, the sad fact that he is not experienced love-making with women would have influenced his way of viewing himself and how he felt exposed. The inspiration made the success of this poem he wrote to himself and people who are very similar to him. While some may find his poem comforting and helping them to feel less insecure about themselves and make them feel alone in this same courtship situation, I find this poem exploiting the unattractive attribute of men’s character and image. No self-respecting women would fall in love with men who are extremely insecure and have no confidence.
Prufrock’s low self-esteem lies behind the images that he uses to represent his weak character and personalities. The image of Polonius signifies the fool he is to allow others to be in control of him. In another words, he is co-dependent on other’s views on him, he is of no high authority and he does not mind being made use of evidently in this quote, “Advise the prince: withal. An easy tool. Deferential, glad to be of use”(114-115).
Even though he is not an authority figure, he feels pushed to the limelight because of his insecurity of his physical attributes, particularly his balding head. His communication skills probably put him in display as he describes, “Sprawling on a pin, when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall”(57-58). The image of an insect pinned to the wall roughly reveals that he is a target, and more than likely a black sheep whom everyone picks on because of his low self-esteem and overtly self-conscious behavior. Like Prufrock, Elliot is in the similar situation whereby being an American in the profound British society made him stand out from the rest.
Prufrock’s and Eliiot’s sense of self-valuing is not in compliment with the brilliant person he is intellectually. The people that Elliot is surrounded by do not fit well with the type of person he is. Somehow, having him as a black sheep in that society is a way of hinting to him that he is unwelcome. Also, it could be a way women do to tell him that he has no open opportunity to date them because they do not find him attractive. The rejection from the people around him influenced his way of behaving around them in probably the most awkward manner that he is being laughed at, and as the result, no one takes him seriously.
He sees himself as a loner and an independent cat, which wanders around and jumps from roof to roof and sleeps alone at the end of the night. He deliberately knows that he is consistently getting old. This misery he infests in himself and the vanishing hope he has for any women to be by his side pulled his confidence down to the bottom of the core of his heart. Ironic will be a word to describe this man who is great with words in his writings, and who should be able to sway and melt any women’s heart instantaneously with his wide vocabulary and charming words. Therefore Elliot and Prufrock are ridiculous to think so low of themselves.
Pruforck is a sad man who acts like a kid who likes a girl but does not tell her. Instead he teases her by pulling her pigtails and kicks her. Somehow he rubs her the wrong way and giving her the wrong signals. It does not work with grown women when he teases the women’s ways in mockery with the mentioning of their tea and toast lifestyle that includes pointless comments on artwork and being involved in countless tea parties. He mocks them of their imperfection: But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!(64). Besides that, he mocks them of their dress codes. Women in his world are like mermaids, the charmers of the sea, whom he is sure would not sing for a man like him.
If I were a mermaid, I would not sing to him either, His negative vibes would drown me, in spite of being a sea creature. His level of confidence is absurd. My life would be as miserable as the woman talked about in “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold because of the extensive negativity imparted in his conversations and character. One part of misery is in a ratio of three parts of happiness, therefore, for his thousands of misery would be a hell for me as it is for him.
Works Cited
Elliot, T. S., “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The Beford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 8th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 1222-1226
Arnold, Matthew, “Dover Beach”. The Beford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 8th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 878-879
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