Essay on Is Adam Krisch being Harsh on Bokowski?

Including Harvard Nemerov and Amy Clampitt the class of 1920 fields, a strong team shows that in the third edition of "The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry they appeared that with the birth of the poet they're also taking birth some intellectual effects that going to create a difference of thinking and writing as well. Bokowski was a very excellent writer as he has been written many of the numbers of books as in hundreds for his fans. Bokowski is that man who occupies a large space from the table as in the list of poets in America he came at the top as his fans love to read its poetry and his fans like mostly the titles of his books including "Love is a Dog from Hell" and Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instruments Until Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. In the middle of the republic letters, he uses to give impressions to them by making the aloof, possible belligerent empire.

There was a person named John Martin who introduces Bokowski was used to say about him that he cannot be able to get an extraordinary excellent and efficient place in the Poem society. Bokowski is that kind of personality that writes in a way as he has nothing to lose and he uses to include direct language according to its experience and allowing the things to be including imagination, emotions and different kind of experience including violence, sexual imagery and violent as well. His fans considered its styles to be unique while its competitors or enemies use to say him offensive and stubborn. According to Grade Saver article, Eliot made the references to Dante in the epigraph of the poem to make readers ready for his nightmarish afterlife which he seems to live in this world already. The epigraph according to the article also shows the similarity between Dante's characters and Eliot's character. Dante's character descends to the ninth level of Hell in Inferno whereas Eliot's character lowers his expectations and pities about himself. Prufrock descends to his hell as Dante's character did in inferno.

In the New Yorker, the analysis shows that there is a similarity between Dante’s character and Eliot’s character because both of them reveal their secrets of pity and crime to someone they believe will not reveal them to somebody else. Therefore, both character is free to express themselves openly without any fear. In New Yorker, the similarity between both characters from Dante's inferno and Eliot's Prufrock is that both are living in hell and the only difference is that Prufrock hell is more of an imaginary one. Prufrock believes that this life is like hell to him and there is no escape from it. The epigraph, according to the article, is essential to the poem’s meaning and overall message because there is a huge similarity between the two. I loved the metaphorical representations and imagery in the poem because the writer made exact references to the objects in his surroundings and while reading the poem, it provides me with a clear picture of how the surroundings of the poet looked like when the poem was written.

I liked the flow of the poem in which every sentence rhymes perfectly and transitions beautifully. Bokowski also asks the readers to give special importance to the atmosphere around us when we are having a special moment with our crush. We should avoid places like ‘Sawdust restaurants with oyster shells’ because such places ruin the moment in which we desire to express our true and deepest feelings to another person. Eliot asks us not to be like Prufrock who has no confidence because he thinks less of himself because of his bald head and old age. From the poem, I learned that we should always prioritize what we should and should not do. And once we know about ourselves we should never hesitate to take the first step towards achieving our goals. No matter what people say or comment about us.

Like any tone of the voice, the tone of a poem refers to the attitude, feelings, or manner that a speaker has towards the subject or theme in the poem. The speaker takes on his childhood memory and recollects it as something which makes him feel odd but happy at the same time. In his poems, the affectionate and a complex joyful attitude of the speaker is identified by underscoring certain words and details in the poem. The speaker uses words such as ‘waltz’, and ‘waltzing’ to show his admiration for this memory. Words like ‘romped’ show that the speaker was not much afraid in the moment and rather felt joyous and carefree. He makes the readers imagine the whole scene in the form of a carefree dance in which he is clinging onto his father. Although his fathers breathe has the enormous smell of whiskey that can make the reader very dizzy, he respects his father and continues waltzing with him.

The speaker's attitude towards the whole theme of the poem has complex humour with elements of dark comedy that is not very comfortable and reassuring. The whole scene where the speaker describes that his waltzing with his father continued in the kitchen and it continued until pans slid down from the kitchen’s shelf which made the expressions on the face of speaker’s mother unhappy and unamused. Furthermore, the speaker is comical when he argues that his father missed some of the opportunities to hit him but every time his father’s hit failed to hit the spot, it hit a different spot on the speaker’s body. The choice of playful words such as ‘dizzy’, ‘easy’, ‘knuckle’, and ‘buckle’ further reinforce the elements of dark comedy in the poem. In contrast to the amusing and comical tone, there are references to negative ideas, such as the drunkenness and domestic violence, but these references cannot be confused with the overall satiric and joyful tone. The speaker refers to his father as a drunk person who has a very unpleasant smell.

In the second stanza, the speaker states that he hung to his drunk father like death which is another negative word. In another spot, the speaker shows disliking when his father's dirty hands beat time on his head. Words such as 'death', 'dirty’, and ‘beats’ are the negative words used in the poem but this dark comedy is overwhelmed by the overall atmosphere of amusement and happiness. The sentences that contain these dark words are followed by joyous phrases. For example, in the last stanza, the speaker says that even though his father beat him, but he is the one who waltz him off to bed later in the night and even though the speaker had been beaten by his father, he still clings onto his father's shirt when he put him to bed. The speaker conveys his attitude towards the theme of the poem by using comical and affectionate imagery and words. Even though the boy whose life is described in the poem feels frightened at the beginning of the poem, but his comical affection and complicated love for his father is evident and central throughout the poem (Kirsch, 2005).

References of Is Adam Krisch being Harsh on Bokowski?

Kirsch, A. (2005, March 7). The Transgressive Thrills of Charles Bukowski. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/03/14/smashed