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English 45C, Architecture, image, Acceptance, Refusal, The Urban Setting,…

- - - - The Weary Blues: The poem's rhythmic variations and swaying tempo mirrors traditionally Black forms of music like Blues.
- - - - Decay of the Individual
        
        The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: Prufrock is self-conscious about his aging physique, which emboldens his insecurities in his yearning for the recipient.
        
        "I grow old ... I grow old ...
        I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
        
        "Time to turn back and descend the stair,
        With a bald spot in the middle of my hair"
      - Reconstruction Era Poverty
        
        Their Eyes Were Watching God: Prior to Janie and Joe Stark's arrival, Eatonville is essentially a shanty town lacking any streetlights or stores. The town acts as a prescient example of the the Federal government's negligence in incorporating black communities post-slavery.
        
        The absence of streetlights in Eatonville is a more realist interpretation of the theme of darkness in the Gothic. Rather than there existing a figurative or metaphorical darkening of her surroundings, Florida is literally pitch black for Janie.
        
        “Unh hunh, it is uh little dark right long heah”(68).
      - Fall From Antebellum Grace
        
        The Sound and the Fury: The Compsons' slip into financial turmoil and irrelevance is sparked with the end of the institution of slavery.
        
        Ruin of the Estates: The Compson lawn and house are left to inaction and rot as the family struggles to adjust to the South's economic and cultural weakness.
        
        "all of them looked up the drive at the square, paintless house with
        its rotting portico."
- - - - The Man of the Crowd: The Crowd is divided based on perceived class signifiers such as their clothing:
        "The gamblers, of whom I descried not a few, were still more
        easily recognizable. They wore every variety of dress, from that of the desperate thimble-rig bully, with velvet waistcoat, fancy
        neckerchief, gilt chains, and filigreed buttons, to that of the
        scrupulously inornate clergyman."
        
        Aesthetics as a guide for moral standing.
        
        Phrenology
        
        American Eugenics Movement
        
        "Uniting the Crowd"
        
        Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret: Play that thing,
        Jazz band!
        Play it for the lords and ladies,
        For the dukes and counts,
        For the whores and gigolos,
        For the American millionaires,
        And the love-night painted faces
        Of American millionaires,
        And the school teachers out for a spree.
        
        Urban Structures like the Nightclub have rich audience members despite being fashioned as "low-class" entertainment
    - - The Lake Isle of Innisfree:
        The narrator of this Yeats poem travels to the small uninhabited island of Innisfree in Ireland. There he searches for solitude in it's rustic landscape: "And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;." It's worth an inquiry into where the narrator's motivations for peace originate, the great distance of the island from urban Dublin perhaps uncovers a need to seek rest from the noise and performance(e.g. workplace etiquette) of urban life.