Prufrock

1. Time plays a role that Prufrock keeps getting older as he attempts to accomplish his goals. He keeps pushing it off as time goes on. Instead of taking the opportunity he is given he continues to push it off.

2. He references Hamlet because he is saying that he cannot be Hamlet and cannot perform like him, with his courage and integrity. He considers himself an "attendant lord" instead of being anywhere like Hamlet.

3. "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me."

Mermaids are usually a symbol of love and beauty so he is referring to the girl he is waiting for, waiting on to make his move but he is afraid that she will not come to him or see him in a way that he would like her to.

The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock. T.S. Eliot. Read by Anthony Hopkins

Everything Is Going To Be All Right - Derek Mahon

Read by the man himself, Mr. Derek Mahon.

Poem comparison

Hamlet

                Hamlet being nuts is definitely a possibility, especially after seeing how he reacts to things. But in all senses, he really is not crazy at all. When he first saw his dad as a ghost and had a conversation with him is when he may start to be considered a little bit crazy because he is talking to a ghost and that has not been proven really that that is possible. When given the task to enact revenge on his uncle/new father, he doesn’t go out and immediately do it. He wants to plan it out and make sure it is the right way to do it, and with him wanting to do it right, it may seem that he is not the sanest person out there. He really just wants to make sure that Claudius can realize what he did wrong and also bring out the guilt in him and his mother, Gertrude.

                In the time period that Hamlet was written, it was not totally wrong that someone can kill someone, at least not as big of punishment as it would be modern-day. With Hamlet needing to enact revenge for his father’s death, it is almost alright for him to do so. Especially after finding out that Claudius, who was supposed to be his uncle at the time, murdered his own father and then goes out and marries Hamlets mom, Claudius’s sister-in-law, it seems that he should do something to show how much his father meant to him and that this kind of sick and twisted marriage scheme should not be tolerated. So no, Hamlet is not crazy, he has strong family morals and wants to preserve his fathers memory.

The cake is a lie

The art of cake making with Val and Will (and Jeff behind camera)

Hamlet notes