- The Love Song of Christina - Thursday, September 07, 2006 What I like about Eliot is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock" Why do I love this poem so much, besides having to live and breathe it for my AP English class back in High school. I related to it. We all will one day have to ask ourselves did we live life to the fullest. And how should we begin? Try writing your own eulogy, will it read without regrets. I should have done what? Will you ask that of yourself? Will you have the strength to take life with its entire crisis? I also love the line of Eliot that he is not Hamlet; he'll only make a scene or two. Even now in my life I am faced with decisions that could shape my entire future either for the better or uproot it. I find myself taking the same route every day. Measuring my life, not in coffee spoons, but in Dr. Pepper cans. I see the same people everyday. I take the same route to work everyday. I even know the car tags of the same vehicles that take the same route with me each morning. Like Proofrock, I don't want to grow old thinking "that is not what I meant at all."When we are young, we think we have so much time for those revisions. We believe we have so much time to make one hundred decisions. Each year I grow older thinking to myself this is it. I think this is the year that I'll make waves. In the end, will I sing the love song of Christina, or will it be too late? Well that's my take on Eliot this week, take what you want and leave the rest.

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