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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
“That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?”
‘The Waste Land’ is a fragmentary poem of five sections, formed primarily by allusion and hence a very liminal work. At no point is the narrator static, but rather exploring vignettes that demonstrate the futility of life and inevitability of death. For something only just over twenty pages its a long read in the time it takes to try and engage with and grasp the meanings and allusions, but without such it is completely devoid of any narrative or understanding. I liked the bleak conceptuality of ‘The Waste Land’ but don’t love the mismatched poetic form.
Wild to think that T.S. Eliot wrote both this and ‘Cats’ though.
Wild to think that T.S. Eliot wrote both this and ‘Cats’ though.
My Irish child, where do you linger?
Someday I will come back to T. S. Elliot and get so much more out of it than the words, stripped of the roots that ground the piece, offered me this time around. Elliot did say poetry should be felt before it could be understood. I felt it. I felt it deep. As someone generally not engaged with a classics background and woefully underread, reading Elliot is like reading the brochure for a trip one can not take. The writing of the Waste Land is beautiful and its disparate images poignant on their own. I'm glad to have read it even if I wish I could read it better.
Someday I will come back to T. S. Elliot and get so much more out of it than the words, stripped of the roots that ground the piece, offered me this time around. Elliot did say poetry should be felt before it could be understood. I felt it. I felt it deep. As someone generally not engaged with a classics background and woefully underread, reading Elliot is like reading the brochure for a trip one can not take. The writing of the Waste Land is beautiful and its disparate images poignant on their own. I'm glad to have read it even if I wish I could read it better.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I had no idea what was going on, I will need to read an annotated version 😅
i can't do all the footnotes required to understand even a fraction of this poem. he's brilliant, but it's too much for my little pea brain to keep track of.
Haré como que no me ha costado entender este libro…(tuve que ver videos de YouTube para saber que estaba leyendo)
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
idk if we’re reaching when i log this on goodreads but i did technically read this and it did help me to understand the poem a bit better
and i do sort of appreciate it a bit now instead of flat out hating on it
and i do sort of appreciate it a bit now instead of flat out hating on it
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I thought at first that this was manageable. It quickly became unmanageable.....This is gloriously confusing.
Very excited to actually break this down and analyse. I need a lecture or two to really dig into the ambiguity and constantly shifting structure of this poem as well as its surrounding context. Great stuff.
Very excited to actually break this down and analyse. I need a lecture or two to really dig into the ambiguity and constantly shifting structure of this poem as well as its surrounding context. Great stuff.