labels are for more than pickle jars

[speirsez]

here's one of the rare entries where i actually have a purpose. lets see how it goes

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[dramaqueen005]

I like that - Label yourself. It's a good point. I honestly need some definition in my life.

I actually love that poem. Although I'm pretty sure that Eliot's confessing that he's gay, I love the bigger issue - that he's torn between confessing the reality and suffering for it, or hiding and suffering for it. I think everybody feels that at some points, but I love the way he describes it. It makes him very real.

i didn't even think of that

[speirsez]

i didnt think that eliot was confessing he was gay at all. haha oops.

Re: i didn't even think of that

[dramaqueen005]

Oh, yeah we talked about that at the beginning and you weren't there. Mrs. Russell said that the mention of Michelangelo, who was gay (I didn't know that, did you?), and the "big question" Eliot wants to ask could be interpreted as questioning his masculinity. I don't know, there was something about how he started talking about "lonely men in shirtsleeves," etc. that did it for me. But it might just be his character, "J. Alfred Prufrock" confessing it or something. Anyways, that's not really the focus of the poem, so it doesn't really matter ; )