14 "The Young Housewife"

"The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams displays how young love is ruthless, carefree, selfish, stupid, and inconsiderate.  The poem, which is told from a first-person point-of-view,  speaks of a young woman who goes behind her husband's back to cheat with other men that are mentioned within the piece.  The ice-man and fish-man both have her way with her before she is discovered by the narrator whom I presume might be her husband or private investigator.   The last line of the poem says, "The noiseless wheels of my car/rush with a crackling sound over/dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling," which I take as a notification of discovery and satisfaction for catching the frivolous female in the act of deception.  As I stated earlier, the narrator may very well be the husband or a P.I. tailored to trailing the deeds that the young housewife commits, so as he "bows and smiles" as he passes her the gratification may come from the idea that he caught her red-handed or  it is the husband's gratification for finally freeing himself of deception, lies, and false love.   

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            Mina Loy's poem "Der Blind Junge" takes a new perspective on the war poems that I have seen and gives her audience the notion of what war is to the German soldiers of World War I, or The Great War.  In this particular poem she is framing the idea that the young boys who served had no say or choice on the actions they committed.  The war changed these boys to men and took their freewill into a false reality that pervaded their humanity in order to complete tasks of cruelty.  These new bred tools of destruction are used for the sole purpose of causing death and mayhem and Loy implies that they have no say in the matter.  In stanza eight she also states, "A downy youth's snout/nozzling the sun/drowned in dumbfounded instinct,"  that implies these soldiers have realized that war has changed them but they do not refute it because in war it is either kill or be killed.  

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                "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot is a poem that is hard to describe because of its grand allusions to history and its epic stories of the past.  His allusions range from stories in the Bible, Greece mythology, poems, and tales from different eras of time.  It splits and fragments each of the allusions and scatters them throughout the poem to make an obscure story that is confusing but almost angelic and prophetic at the same time.  Eliot takes these great pieces of literature and transports the reader to that time by using the languages  to connect figures, words, voice, culture, and time.  The tone is set throughout the story from the very first sentences.  Irony runs throughout "The Waste Land" When Eliot uses Petronius, Satyricon, which almost sound like the word "Satirical." 

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                As I said in my previous blog, Prufrock is an intriguing character.  Eliot describes him as an older man who  has experienced a good deal of life's twists and turns.  Prufrock is a pale and frail individual filled with many self-doubts and insecurities that hinder his desires to achieve things, in this instance a woman.  He is afraid to face the women because he believes they will judge him strongly on his appearance.  But Prufrock is made out to be a person that is a day dreamer as he visualizes the many outcomes and what-if's that would have been if he had talked with one of them.  One lines 87 he says, "And would it have been worth it, after all,/After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,"  and again on line 99 with, "And would it have been worth it, after all,/would it have been worth while."  The desires are not fulfilled in the end as the heartbroken Prufrock sings his song of goodbye to the unattainable "Mermaids" on line 123.  

blog numero whatever "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

                Eliot has a very subtle tone in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by creating imagery of the characters and scene in the poem.  It is also seems to be for those who can really appreciate the very essence of the poem like the very cultured or intellectual.  For instance, the very beginning of the poem does not start on line one but before it.  The excerpt from the Dante's Inferno is aimed at an audience that is able to read latin and is cultured in the arts.  All that aside, Eliot shows his first imagery of the city by letting the audience know about what type of city it is from stanza one through three.  The yellow fog like a cat helps create the notion that it slips around the city very subtly by creeping through the cracks of doors tracking anywhere it can.  It also is a definitive detail about the city.  Since it is yellow it means that the city is an industrial city that burns a lot of coal. This city is bound by the seashore according to line seven that mentions oyster-shells, which is an aphrodisiac, which also lets the reader know more about the city. 

                Prufrock himself is a very peculiar man as Eliot describes him to be a frail, pail, and nervous individual.  He is plagued by the passionate idea of acquiring something that he cannot attain.  He questions himself multiple times throughout the poem on whether or not he is good enough or worthy to go after a trophy he thinks is mystical.  This prize is a higher class of female that is like no other he has been around and they attract him because of their uniqueness.  

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                "Who's Who" by W.H. Auden ordains the notion of someone or a man committed to becoming a great figure of impeccable accomplishments in order to receive acceptance from his father or father-like figure.  It is a homage to human kind's perseverance as well as its humility because of its display and tone within the poem.  It honors human perseverance by detailing the great actions that a man has done like climbing a mountain, discovering a seas and lands, and becoming a man through trial and error.  However, all of these accomplishments are done in the respect of proving himself to another figure in his life.  This other figure is someone else but most likely a father figure that has gained the attention of this young person.  This father figure is the motivation and drive that the man uses to achieve his goals in order to prove his worthiness to another who does little to better himself or the world.  This poem is about family and how everyone has a drive in order to protect a loved one and would go to great lengths to do it.  

Blog ocho "The Creation"

                The bio about James Weldon Johnson describes him as a man who liked to instill qualities of the sermons he had heard in childhood.  In "The Creation" he does this by making the whole poem seem as if it is told from a child's point of view.  He creates a childlike theme by describing the process of creation as a  five year old would tell it.  It is very nostalgic to me in its overall context because the poem has a mellow tone of "God" being the childlike figure in the poem.  Johnson gives the creator childish features like in stanza one, "I'm lonely - Ill make me a world," and "And god rolled the light around in his hands/Until he made the sun/And God said: That's good (15, 16, 25)."  These are things that something a little kid would say and do when he is playing outside.  Johnson does this throughout the poem and makes the creation of the earth, moon, and stars seem to be a kid having fun in a sandbox.  The only real question is if Johnson makes out the existence of man and mankind's faith of Christianity to be some kind of joke or feeble false reality or does Johnson take the creator of life and reality and describes God from his own point of view?