Topiary American Dream?

How did the film, A Man Named Pearl, impact you? What did it challenge you to think, feel, and believe about the American Dream? Please share your passionate response. (Due by 3:30p.m. Wed., April 29th.)

Do I Dare Respond Like Prufrock?

Poet Ezra Pound stated that The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, "... is a portrait of failure, or of a character which fails, and it would be false art to make it end on a note of triumph ..."  Please respond and react to this excerpt from his review of the poem; furthermore, what aspects of the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and character, Prufrock, "speak" to you?  Why?  How?  Please use quotations from the poem to defend your analysis and explication.