Prufrock Assignment
Stanza:
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
Analysis:
I chose this stanza because I like the allusion about time. The verse from the book of Ecclesiastes is, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” I agree with this completely; everything happens in its own time and for a reason. The repetition Eliot uses allows the reader to understand the importance of time in this poem. Prufrock is running out of time to share his love. The line, “And time for yet a hundred indecisions” exemplifies the fact that Prufrock cannot make up his mind about what to do with his feelings. That is why I chose the moving image of the fog: it is as if Prufrock is in a fog and cannot see clearly. The song “I can’t explain” also fits this stanza well; the lyrics include the lines, “Can’t explain… I think it’s love… Try to say it to you…When I feel blue…” These lyrics apply to Prufrock in that he is afraid that he is going to grow old before he is ever going to find love. The entire poem has an air of confusion and indecision that is illustrated through this stanza.
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on January 27th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hi!
Now that I finally figured out how to do this blog stuff, I can leave comments!
I really like the stanza that you picked out (I almost picked that one myself), and the allusion to time. My favorite line is “and time yet for a hundred indecisions,and for a hundred visions and revisions.” I like your static image picture too, bascially because it has coffee in it (or is that tea?). And the song is cool too, those guys in the video have some pretty sweet dance moves
-Kate
on January 28th, 2008 at 5:08 am
I agree with Kate-That is a good line. I didn’t think you’d be so literal with the image-not that it’s bad-I like toast. It works though b/c the image is so mundane
RK
on January 28th, 2008 at 9:27 am
That is the stanza I was going to use before I switched to the one I did, and I wish I hadn’t. I can’t see your moving image or song right now, so all I can say is that is some quality toast. And the woman who drew my blood was pretty mean to me… very strange.