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Amazing poetry
This is a very difficult poem to understand with a superb and amazing craft. However analysis and study is required to fully benefit.
This is a very difficult poem to understand with a superb and amazing craft. However analysis and study is required to fully benefit.
Read for Modernism module.
It's been such a long time since I've just sat down and read a poem. Eliot's THE WASTE LAND is a poem which I've dipped into before last year, and I certainly know about it, but I'd never read the whole thing before today. Upon reading it I'm rather enchanted but slightly befuddled; definitely going to have to re-read.
It's been such a long time since I've just sat down and read a poem. Eliot's THE WASTE LAND is a poem which I've dipped into before last year, and I certainly know about it, but I'd never read the whole thing before today. Upon reading it I'm rather enchanted but slightly befuddled; definitely going to have to re-read.
أوك أظن مافي شيء بيغير من حقيقة إنها للأبد بتظل تأثر فيني بهالشكل ؟! ما عندي خبرة فالشعر أنا-خصيصاً الشعر المترجم
I truly cannot say if I adore this poem or I absolutely despise it. I think a little bit of both.
A long time ago, I wrote a paper on The Wasteland for a class in mysticism. Reading The Wasteland is a meditative experience.
From BBC Radio 4:
Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot introduced by Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien.
Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot introduced by Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien.
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is a vast tentacular earthly creature. If its head is in Russia, one of its tentacle is in Honolulu while other is in Cambodia. Since this creature is so big, just two legs won't do. And that is not all. I am not sure what zoologists would say, but I am certain that this creature's tentacles are rigged. If you want to climb on it, you can't do so without taking help and mind you, this system of climbing is so faulty that you can't even take help of any random person. Call it the shyness for speaking out, but finding the person is going to be very difficult. It is the modern world you see, we no longer believe in staticity.
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song
I finished reading it two days ago, and what I remember it's how softly I went through the poems. Although there are a handful of symbols and references that I didn't understand.
I finished reading it two days ago, and what I remember it's how softly I went through the poems. Although there are a handful of symbols and references that I didn't understand.
Beautiful and baffling. I get the general feeling of disillusion, of the falsity and emptiness of upper class society, the desire to escape said emptiness, but there are so many literary and cultural allusions that it's going to take several re-reads and lots of footnotes to better appreciate this poem. It's rich and meaty, and I can see why it's a classic.
I think I could have enjoyed this poem a lot more if I had Cliffsnotes to understand it. So many metaphors, and I think there might've been some stream-of-consciousness in there, as well.
Edit: June 9, 2018
I kind of want to reread this to see if I can appreciate it more the next time around.
Edit: June 9, 2018
I kind of want to reread this to see if I can appreciate it more the next time around.