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153 reviews for:

The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot

3.98 AVERAGE

greentreefroggie's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

laurence_s07's review against another edition

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

katlip's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

book_busy's review against another edition

5.0

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.

realjordanjohnson's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Definitely need to sit down and annotate this to better understand the work in its entirety. This was a bleak, dark look at a broken society post World War One through a handful of fragmented stories. With that in mind, the writing was beautifully poetic (as expected) with lots of allegories, illusions, and symbolism throughout.