From a first glance at the title of this poem, one can perceive that it has to do with love or being in love yet that is defiantly not the case for poor Mr. J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem is about the consequences of avoiding life's big questions. Prufrock spends half the poem going on and on about how much time he has until he is finally confronted and uses the "time to turn back and descend the stair." He is indecisive throughout the poem and tries to make up for it with self-loathing. Eventually, his time has passed and is stuck thinking " would have it been worth while?"
I learned from Prufrock's cowardliness to take risks and disturb the universe! Our time as young adults are to live boldly and loudly yet still being pre-cautious of the time we are granted and preparing for the future. We cannot waste our youth and our dreams of wanting to "murder and create" because there is time "for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions." We can make a choice and change it because the opportunities are at a multitude, yet we cannot catch ourselves looking back over the four to eight years of college and wondering did we use that time wisely to move forward in life. If we avoid preparation and making the choices of major, career, etc. we panic like Prufrock begins to do once he realizes that he is old. Our lives are a small dot on the infinite timeline and we never know when our time will run out so each day we must make it count.
I commented on Ray's blog post.
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