Analytical Essay - Carolina - Love Song

Love Song

In The Love Song by T.S Eliot it seems that the character in the poem goes through innocence, chaos, resolution, and chaos again.

At first he’s in innocence. He says, “In the room the women came and go talking of Michel Angelo.” He says it as if there’s nothing more to it but the coming and going of the women. He see’s nothing wrong with it.

Then he goes into chaos. He talks some more about women coming and going, but he doubts him self and puts him self down by saying “Do I dare? And Do I dare? Time to turn back and descend the stair with a bald spot in the middle of my head” He scares him self so he’ll have an excuse not to talk to the women coming in and out of the room.

Towards the end of the poem he figures that he has to accept him self as who he is. He says “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;” So he realizes that he is only a man like every other man with flays.

But at the very end of the poem he doubts him self again by saying that “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each, I do not think that they will sing to me.” At the very last moment when you thought that he had accepted him self, he turns around and doubts himself all over again. By thinking that way he wont get a girl because he’s to hard on him self

In this poem this man is going through life with no worries ‘till he goes to a party/places where women come and go. Then he thinks about his life and how he needs it or some thing. Then he starts doubting and that’s when the cycle of his life starts from innocence to chaos to resolution to chaos to resolution to chaos and on and on. Luckily for him that just part of life and that’s how we live day to day. If you didn’t then you would have problems.