The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is hardly a love song at all. In fact, it is more about despair than it is about love.

Working Together Group Remix

Ashlyn Bishop, Alyssa Oh, Brenissa Flores, Elizabeth Smith, Victoria Tonascia and I all put together a little powerpoint-type presentation to make understanding David Whyte's "Working Together" a bit easier.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BeodFHlvIF1ImNxliVaQdK6tjo4dCVFpveSCJslWUb4/edit#slide=id.p

Poetry Comparison: "Working Together" vs. "Out Beyond Ideas"

       Though both concepts of working together and having ideas are different, they also go together rather well. Both "Working Together" by David Whyte and Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi's "Out Beyond Ideas" have certain connections embedded within the works. They both contain aspects of interconnectivity as well as finding something bigger than oneself.
       "Working Together" is broadly about how different people and things come together for some greater purpose. But when it is further analyzed, it can also be said that the poem is about the unknown creating the unknown. It talks of shaping and imagining things in a matter of togetherness. This can be related back to Rumi's "Out Beyond Ideas."
       Although Rumi's poem is shorter and structured very differently, it still carries some of the points given by Whyte's poem. It, too, talks of how something is made of nothing, and how ideas can be formed, just not necessarily outright through working together. It has a certain vagueness about it that "Working Together" lacks, and is a bit more mysterious. Regardless, both poems loosely tell the same story, just in different ways.
       All in all, though the authors set out to get across different messages, the two poems highly correlate. Through working together, ideas can be combined to create something intangible. These things can then be uncovered to create something great.

Intro to Poetry

Working Together by David Whyte