long dead and best forgotten

[ellajam]

Thanks Marcella. I think what you are missing is that this is the the J Alfred Prufrock, the Casper Milquetoast of the 21st century.

"Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;"

Mundane minutia defines the speakers life, so yes it is important that he tells us that he is back in academia where he is safe and protected (insulated) from "the noisiness of it (life)" because it "never reached (his) ears."

I will consider deleting "haunted echoes" if you will tell me why you do not like it.

Thanks for the comments,


Dale

I'll read that, then this again, then be back.
(but it's unlikely I'll follow that back to Dante's Inferno, although I believe it's on the shelf.)