And so it begins

Hello, i am taking the easy way out here...by choosing a random paragraph, which just happens to be the first one, then i will proceed to analyze the hell out of it and hope to receive a good grade.

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

Straight from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
I shall be reading and analyzing this paragraph alone, without the rest of the story/poem, so if i say this part might show this, and it doesn't happen, well too bad that's what i analyzed and thought would occur from using only this part of the story/poem.

The speaker wants to take the person being spoken to out at night, late night when everything is dark and the stars cover the sky. The speaker wants to take the person being spoken to, all over the place, not the best of places, but everywhere he can afford.

The speaker is trying to get the receiver (easier then person being spoken to) to sleep with him, this can be seen in several ways. The title of the story/poem is "The Love Song..." makes one believe that there will be some loving going on. One night cheap hotels, probably more like the one hour cheap hotels. Of course there was the "argument of insidious intent", and where are they going to make their visit, the one hour cheap hotel?

The form of this paragraph is interesting, it does not fit most common writing styles, yet at the same time it is not very free. There is no set amount of syllables to each line, and it seems like the stresses are not set from line to line. However there does appear to be some end rhymes, while they don't always match up perfectly, there are a few sets of lines with rhymes at the end.

The poetry form of a writing always "seems" to be enhanced when compared with the standard prose version. That is because there are often numerous extraneous words to fill the poem with "fluff" however at the same time this allows the creative side of both the writers and readers to take the poem to the next level.

This is the opening paragraph to the story/poem, it is where we are introduced to the story and where we get our first glimpses of the characters and can see some character development, even in a poem there is character development. From this point we are able to come up with several ideas on how the poem will proceed, this could be one of the most important parts of the poem, unless of course there is a dramatic plot twist.



Oh and by the way..... 3. Finally, it should put that sustained reading of a section of the poem in conversation with teh rest of the poem....i did itz with teh rest of da poem lolz (can't blame me for doing that to an English teacher)