"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
The narrator is basically saying that he wishes he would have been born a crab rather than a human. He feels he hasn't accomplished anything in his life and he has found no sense of moving forward. If he was a crab then life would be much easier and simpler and that is what he is trying to express in those lines. Which is quite sad that someone would wish they basically hadn't been born because they feel so useless and miserable with their life, which is how the narrator feels.
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ReplyDeleteI really like this analysis of the quote - it is nice and simple, and it also is straight to the point. Also, I agree with the point you make about him feeling completely useless in the world.
ReplyDeleteYour writing is amazing and I envy you as a writer and you bring up ideas I do not see and it is extremely refreshing to see another outlook of a theme to further open my eyes. Perhaps the narrator does feel insignificant as there are many quotes throughout the poem where the speaker constantly puts himself down with insecure and self-conscience thoughts. I do not personally know someone who wants to be a crab rather than a human, perhaps a misanthrope? You think there's a possibility that the speaker says this because he has lost all hope for humanity and its hopelessness? I don't know, it's just a thought I thought you would like to chew on. Regardless I am not trying to debunk your analysis, good job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the previous statements and with your overall analysis, Stefana! You take a line that could be perceived as complicated and explain in a few sentences just how simple it truly is. Your analysis was so in depth that I now look at those two lines and wonder how I missed the ideas you introduced! Your concise and straight to the point approach in explaining this quote made reading this quote a second time, that much more interesting!
ReplyDeleteI agree with all of the statements above. Prufrock does not have sense of himself and he wants to be something else , a crab. He feels so unaccomplished in life that he is willing to say he wants to become a crab. He feels so useless and just wishes he was never alive. This is very sad because he truly has no want to live.
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