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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
How many dozens of times I've been through this book I don't know. Read Eliot, that's all I can say.
Not the best collection, with some absolutely garbage tier Eliot letting it down.
I'm very fond of poetry because it has layers. If you read it multiple times, you will get a different experience each time. It's all reflective of what you're going through at that specific point in your life. Or so I believe anyways.
Eliot's poems have layers but what I loved most of all was the way the words were being 'dribbled' on the page. Like the words are a basketball and Eliot takes it and has fun with it before dunking it in. Some verses are just a pleasure to read out loud because of the clever use of language.
Eliot's poems have layers but what I loved most of all was the way the words were being 'dribbled' on the page. Like the words are a basketball and Eliot takes it and has fun with it before dunking it in. Some verses are just a pleasure to read out loud because of the clever use of language.
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ahhhh I love T.S Eliot. So well written. Great use of devices. Such fun themes and interconnectedness between the parts. The structuring is sooooo good.
“Ash Wednesday” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” were my favorites.
Reading “Prufrock” and seeing the lines “in the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo” as a pretentious 19 year old art history major changed my life. It’s nice to revisit those words all these years later and gain something new, and deeper, from the poem that I missed as a teenager.
Reading “Prufrock” and seeing the lines “in the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo” as a pretentious 19 year old art history major changed my life. It’s nice to revisit those words all these years later and gain something new, and deeper, from the poem that I missed as a teenager.
challenging
reflective
I know a lot of people hate him because of how confusing & depressed he is but if I'm honest that's kind of why I like him so him. Not like, as a person, but I still really like his poems a lot. Like the way he creates all these different threads and takes preexisting ones and ties them all together in a knot is so fascinating to me and the message conveyed (severe depression) is one I really relate to. I will forever maintain that Eliot literally says nothing about the wider world at his time, he was literally just depressed (my evidence? I have the exact same thought processes sometimes & the outside world contributes very little to this). I think The Waste Land is my favourite poem.
Holy crap.
T.S. Eliot has my whole heart.
I know that poetry with a rhyming scheme is often looked down upon by more well-versed members of the poetry community, but I find that if it is done in a tasteful way I more often appreciate it than not. The themes of real life melding into Eliot’s headspace make for some beautiful verbiage. One of my personal favorites is
“Polyphiloprogenetive
The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window panes
In the beginning was the word.”
-the beginning of a brief poem about Eliot’s experiences on Sunday.
T.S. Eliot has my whole heart.
I know that poetry with a rhyming scheme is often looked down upon by more well-versed members of the poetry community, but I find that if it is done in a tasteful way I more often appreciate it than not. The themes of real life melding into Eliot’s headspace make for some beautiful verbiage. One of my personal favorites is
“Polyphiloprogenetive
The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window panes
In the beginning was the word.”
-the beginning of a brief poem about Eliot’s experiences on Sunday.