02-25-2010, 02:42 AM
I have something(s) from each of them, but not on my personal computer. Anyway, you should probably due the work to analyze the poetry yourself. If you are unclear of the meaning, you can look it up.
Loved Ode to a Grecian Urn, it's all about prolonging the ephemeral quality of love (especially young love). However, it's uncertain whether this is a happy thing--this being frozen in time--because the couple are constantly longing, coming together--but never actually get to be together.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is one of my favorite poems. The meaning can be hazy upon first read. I suggest reading this poem (and all of them, actually, much more fun) out loud. Prufrock is surrounded by these cultured ladies, he feels himself lesser, scrutinized, silly. These women are mermaids, unreachable--"Do I dare disturb the universe?" A great poem, I have lots written about it, and wrote my own emulation poem--notice the sonics he uses, off-rhyme and ocean imagery--it really invokes the ocean.
Blah, sorry, that's just what I can remember off the top of my head.
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