what i see in literature

-The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes- imagery
-Combing the white hair of the waves blown back - imagery
-I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.- metaphor

-grown slightly bald-symbol

love- symbol?

Love song

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea- imagery

We backed up to a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller- Metaphor

love for daisy- symbol

The Great Gatsby

 

The themes for both Prufrock and Gatsby are very similar using the seas as a metaphor.  Why did they choose sea as the primary metaphor? Is it because its very deep and quiet and mysterious, or something more? They also referenced love in some way or another. The old man is getting  old but would love to be great and Gatsby's obsession with Daisy is profound through the story.(1st impression )What I believe that the poem talks about his love  and youth of his greatness but hasn't decided what to do that is greatly yet but as he ponders to the realization of him growing old fears death and becoming some random average  dead person that nobody would care about just like Gatsby. This could be the modern day Hamlets'.