10-03-2014, 09:09 AM
maybe rips would be better. Thanks!
the nod to Eliot was essential, given that the setting of the poem is immediately after death, riding the river, and confronted by a ghost, some Prufrockian entity who reveals why they are in hell. The person riding the boat is an Italian glassblower master, who was killed by their apprentice via pouring molten glass over the poor bloke's head as he was drunkenly napping. The apprentice wanted the master's secrets, which were kept under lock and key. The reason why the Prufrockian entity is in hell is expressed (Prufrockian entity is unrelated in any way to the Italian riding the boat), but deducing that on your own is difficult. The convoluted nature of guilt and self torture is a strange thing. The key of the poem is the ghost, the man is just a vessel in this case, and says little, if anything.
the nod to Eliot was essential, given that the setting of the poem is immediately after death, riding the river, and confronted by a ghost, some Prufrockian entity who reveals why they are in hell. The person riding the boat is an Italian glassblower master, who was killed by their apprentice via pouring molten glass over the poor bloke's head as he was drunkenly napping. The apprentice wanted the master's secrets, which were kept under lock and key. The reason why the Prufrockian entity is in hell is expressed (Prufrockian entity is unrelated in any way to the Italian riding the boat), but deducing that on your own is difficult. The convoluted nature of guilt and self torture is a strange thing. The key of the poem is the ghost, the man is just a vessel in this case, and says little, if anything.
