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Posted by Jamie on December 05, 19103 at 21:15:23:
In Reply to: Ragged claws posted by Steve Aldrich on June 01, 19101 at 15:35:54:
I tend to take the view that Prufrock's journey represents a dysfunctional individual's fantasy and the "silent sea" is the canvas of his imagination where "sea girls" or, nymphs writhe and entice an aroused Prufrock.
He feels inept and minute as he moves to the encounter which is phallus-driven thus the reference of the "claw" = phallus as he sidles, furtively closer to his encounter but in his heart believes that there will never be an encounter and that he will forever "scuttle along the floors of silent seas" never physically encountering a living female and if he ever did, "human voices would awaken him and he would drown". ie be out of his depth.
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