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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
and in remembering this masterpiece, let us not forget Ezra Pound who took the ramblings of a poet, and turned them into a classic.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock has some of the greatest lines
Clearly my favorite
Clearly my favorite
“And even the abstract entities circumambulate her charm; but our lot crawls between dry ribs to keep our metaphysics warm.”
I enjoyed this collection far less than I expected to, certainly in part to the due to the introduction by Randy Malamud. I believe words should stand on their own and I would have much preferred Malamud's history and analysis be at the end of the collection rather than the beginning. I also disagree with the decision to translate Eliot's French poems. I suppose in this way I am a 'poetry purist', I want to read words the way they were written; unexplained, untranslated - but I can imagine that this introduction supplemented the enjoyment others received from this collection and I can concede I am not the target demographic of the particular edition that I read.
I particularly enjoyed 'Whispers of Immortality' and 'The Fire Sermon' and 'What the Thunder Said' from 'The Waste Land'.
I enjoyed this collection far less than I expected to, certainly in part to the due to the introduction by Randy Malamud. I believe words should stand on their own and I would have much preferred Malamud's history and analysis be at the end of the collection rather than the beginning. I also disagree with the decision to translate Eliot's French poems. I suppose in this way I am a 'poetry purist', I want to read words the way they were written; unexplained, untranslated - but I can imagine that this introduction supplemented the enjoyment others received from this collection and I can concede I am not the target demographic of the particular edition that I read.
I particularly enjoyed 'Whispers of Immortality' and 'The Fire Sermon' and 'What the Thunder Said' from 'The Waste Land'.
I'm not HUGE into poetry as it is but this is so far removed in time and, even with an analysis open, I found it very hard to glean any meaning from it. I was so bored and kept telling myself "It's so short, you can at least finish it." But no. I am not the right audience for this at all.
challenging
slow-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced