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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
The five stars are for the first five poems in this collection. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the Wasteland are amazing. The other five poems were written after T.S. Eliot 's Christian conversion. These poems lack the challenge and brilliance of his earlier poems.
dark
reflective
slow-paced
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
I am not quite sure that I understood every single line in this collection, but I know for sure that this is the best poetry collection that I have read till date.
Of course I needed to find out ab this book after listening to my English professors gushing ab Eliot like their own son in law but I didn't expect this to be SO good. What an absolutely pleasant surprise.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
Of course I needed to find out ab this book after listening to my English professors gushing ab Eliot like their own son in law but I didn't expect this to be SO good. What an absolutely pleasant surprise.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
It’s been windy in Ohio and it is April and metaphors of spring and wind as change and nothingness and destruction were putting me into the moment. Lots of great stuff in this collection but points off for antisemitism and random poems in like ancient greek and french and german like maybe i am an entitled american but what am i supposed to do with that
Content Warnings
Moderate: Antisemitism
I'll be honest I did not understand a LOT of this, and not just the poems that were entirely in French
I have read some of these poems before (Prufrock, The Wasteland) and I enjoyed discovering others I had not heard of. My favorites were La Figlia Che Piange, Gerontion and A Cooking Egg. I did not give each poem the same scrutiny I had to the ones previously read (no school assignment means no ten hour research project), but I do not think that detracted from the experience of reading Eliot. Admittedly I did not understand every poem in here; however, one of the great things about this edition is that it had plenty of endnotes to help you decipher them. Furthermore, the introduction gave great insight to T.S. Eliot and his works and I felt that my overall comprehension was greatly increased due to this.
reflective
slow-paced
