J. Alfred Prufrock

-I got clarity of the lines about Michelangelo. They talk about the ladies and how their staus is so unattaible and their standards of men are high compared to those around them. They are too high in culture that they don't stay around for long and leave once their educated speech has surpassed the knowledge of them around. 

-It is a love song of himself and the world he wanted to create

- he is old and is accepting of it rather than suicidal

-contemplating/ reviewing what he has done in life and frankly that isn't very much so he is a little sad

- his nama has three parts to it which makes it seem like he should be famous or of high class and surmount to something so he might have fallen short of the expectation so became depressed and sad and make a world where he did achieve what he wanted. 

-he wants to be more than what he is and that is the tragic love song of his life. he wants what he cant have 

Literature Analysis #3

Oedipus Rex

1. The exposition, rising action are when Oedipus is introduced with his brother Creon and wife Jocosta. It explains the background behind how Oedipus got to be king and how he saved the city of Thebes from the Sphinx after their king died. He needs to save the city again and this leads him to try and find the murder of the first king. The first climax is when he is talking to the prophet who tells him that Oedipus was the murderer after Oedipus gets mad at the prophet for not initially telling him. This leads to Oedipus being ousted by Creon and being paranoid that he is trying to over throw him. The second climax is when Oedipus finds out everything; he killed his father who was the king of Thebes and he married his mother. This was the prophecy he was told in his home town so he was suppose to be killed by the messenger but the messenger never killed him and he grew up to fulfill the prophecy even after he did not want to. The resolution is Oedipus gouging his eyes out and Jocosta killing herself. Creon banishes Oedipus and he went from king to exiled.
2. The theme is ironic fate and how somethings are out of our control. Oedipus knew he didn't want to be a man who married his mother and killed his father so he took precautions to avoid it. Even with the precautions of moving away, the imminent future of himself was something he could not control and was bound to happen. It was ironic that the thing he was running away from was with him the whole time; himself.
3. The tone is anxious and angry. Oedipus was first anxious about helping his people but that soon turned into greed and anger. He always had this idea and anxiety about his past and if his fate was dooming towards him and this leads to his decisions that he makes. He chooses to not help his people and focus on saving his own self when he was accused of murder because he is scared that he actually was the one to do it and his past his catching up to him. He accused Creon which leads to his fate being uncovered and again Oedipus is anxious about what had happened and wants to leave to see where his life will take him.
"Tell me then, what has brought you all here?  Is there something you are afraid of?  Is there something you need from me? Tell me and it will certainly be granted!  Otherwise what sort of a man would I be if I had not enough compassion to help you, you, my very own folk, with all my heart?"

"Well then, I utter these words: In your ignorance, you conduct the vilest acts with those closest to you.  Vile acts of which you are ignorant and which you cannot see."

"He took out the golden brooches that held her dress and plunged them deep into the sockets of his own eyes so that they’ll never again see what evil things he’s done nor any of those deeds he might do in the future. In darkness they’d always be and therein they’d receive those things he’d want to receive and not receive those he wouldn’t want to receive.

4. 1. irony

"he won’t remain here while he’s fallen in the grips of his own curses."

2. parralelism
"What pain!  What loathsome Fate!  What appalling Fate!"
3. aphorism
'Better to be dead, I should think, than to be alive and blind."
4. anaphora
"Such circumstances bring about double suffering, double pain and double burdens!"
5. foreshadow
"dreadful prophesies, prophesies like, one day I would become my mother’s husband, or that I would give birth to a generation hated by all mankind, or that I would murder my father!"
6. monologue
"Since...malignant shame!"
7. both protagonist and antagonist 
"Oedipus:"
8. personification
"Arrogance overfed with vanity and bloated with unearned riches, will turn a man into a tyrant"
9. setting
"King of our Thebes,"
10. imagery
"A despicable pestilence, my lord, has taken our Thebes within its murderous grip!"

Characterization
1. "Look at us! We are all here, gathered around your altars, praying. See? All the ages of men are here: the youth, whose wings have yet to spread wide enough for flying far and the old men whose head and back are bent with years" Direct because literally saying that there are a multitude of men and women of all ages. Indirect because this shows how dedicated the people are to helping the cause and how much they trust oedipus in fixing the problem This also shows Oedipus as a man who is trustworthy and had gained the liking of the people he rules.
"Yes, I can speak of it.  Apollo told me once that I would be my mother’s husband and my father’s murderer, so I left Corinth a long time ago. " Indirect because it shows Oedipus as being a man who is fearful and runs away form his problems rather than faces them. The names of the characters like Shepard or King give social status to the men and women and tell the readers of their significance in society. 
2. No the author uses the same syntax and diction for all the characters generally except fro when the Chorus speaks. The chorus is more direct and has the summary of what is going to happen or of what people think that were not directly involved in the ocurances. They explained how people hated Oedipus after he accused wrongfully people of the murder of the old king. They told Oedipus that he was wrong for what he did and they are the voice of reason in the play, but they are not actually involved in the story but more of an over voice while the events play out. 
3.Main character is dynamic but flat. He has the innate qualities of greed and anxiety that do not come out until he is directly in trouble. He was first seen as a man of high royalty and power and every one looked at him with respect. As the play continues he loses that respect from self destruction and getting involved in things he could not control. This led his downfall and his true character came out which was selfish and fearful. He changed from confident and powerful to exiled and blind with imperfections. He always had these characteristics which makes him flat. 
4.I felt as if I was in a movie and was detached. I didn't the emotions as I though I would have in a play but that might have been because I couldn't put pictures to the words. I felt as if I was hovering over the situations and was an actual reader rather than someone in the moment with them, feeling their pain. "O, how gruesomely clearly it has all unravelled!  O light! Let me enjoy you for one last time.  One last time from the time I was born, for I was born from the wrong parents, I was bonded with the wrong people and I have killed those I should have never killed!" I don't feel his pain and although it is a sad part in the play when he finds out his fate has come true, the climax does not add anything else to the play. It is dramatic and I read it fast because I was intrigued but not "fully there." I felt his words were hollow maybe because I had a perception of him as not a good man or a man trying to change his fate which could have clouded my judgement. 

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

1. Time is the keeper of dwelling. It keeps stating that there is time, bit contradicts it with all the things there "is" time for, which is just added responsibility. Time keeps the regret and the voice in your head saying do something. Time is the constant reminder to not do something or of all the reasons to not perform or act. It is the birth and death of someone. As literal time passes as you read the poem, the progression of the poem is down tunring. It starts out confident but as it continues to speak the words turn into a fantasy that the character doesn't want to wake up from. Time makes the character despise his life and love the fantasy he creates. In the end time is the thing that kills him
2. the allusion to Hamlet is saying that Prufrock is no prince. He doesn't have the royalty that Hamlet does or the crisis that he does. Hamlet was fortunate to choose between killing people and getting away with it whereas Prufrock is condemned by his social status and himself. He listens to others rather than Hamlet who makes his own life and calls the shots. He is not the main scene but something just in the background. The significance of the eternal footman is death or god. Some entity that makes him afraid of what it is. It could be himself and his future because he sees his present and how destroyed it is and that foreshadows his future to where he is afraid to live it. Prufrock sounds like he doesn't have a nice life and so he wastes it away and that might be the footman who takes his coat because he is just wasting away and doesn't know what to do to stop it.
3. When he describes the yellow fog. The yellow gives the idea of sickness but as he explains it, it reminds me of a dog. How the fog is always there and comforts him in a way. The unconditional love that protects him that he longs for but doesn't know is there. He takes advantage of it and its hidden from it.

Poem remix

Working together with the things that seem impossible. We are shaped by the world just as the world is shaped by us.

Working Together Vs. Everything is Going to be Alright

The poetry we see today is just words. We rarely take the time to look and evaluate what we see everyday. Things seem too obvious to be mentioned, but that is what poetry does. It creates emotions and ideas and action that words in an essay cannot. In Working Together the obvious is stated and it shows the contradiction in everyday life and how it works; something so obvious but is never mentioned. In Everything is Going to be Alright it shows the world in one dimension as if everything everywhere is always going to be alright; something stated too much. 

The balance between creating a piece of poetry that "moves" people and creating a piece of paper that someone reads for corrections is delicately mentioned in Working Together. "Working together in common cause to produce the miraculous," states that the things we see everyday and take no notice of work together to create something we cherish. We cherish the planes we fly on, we cherish the clothes we wear, we cherish the water we drink. Yet we don't see the contradicttion. We don't see the massive body floating in the sky, we don't see the clothes we use to hide ourselves, we don't see the water we give up to stay alive. Everything is the opposite of itself. 

We see life as something that is black or white. Yes or no. Wrong or right. Credit or no credit. Once we get involved with the details, it all falls apart. Everything is Going to be Alright touches on the idea of how even when we focus too much on the details, there is a bigger picture involved. "There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to get into that," there is no need to focus on the one aspect that makes us fall apart. There are so many other things in life that contribute to the beauty we see everyday that keeps us going. We need to focus on what keeps us together rather than what makes us fall part. 

Working Together and Everything is Going to be Alright are two poetic pieces that make readers optimistic. "The sun rises in spite of everything," "So may we in this life trust," give he impression of a future that keeps going. Trust the present to lead the future. Although Everything is Going to be Alright  has an insular point of view whereas Working Together has different point of views of ordinary occurrences, the two poems coincide. We take advantage of what we see and sometimes lose the concept of trust. The constant heart beat of the poems from negative to positive helps readers establish a connection between what poetry is and how it relates to what we are; things that seem impossible in the present but persist for the future.