A review by futurama1979
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

4.0

i found this collection so delightful. moving from "Prufrock" in 1917 to "Poems" in '20 and finally "the Waste Land" in '22, you really see Eliot's themes mature and evolve. 'Lovesong' as well as 'Gerontion' and of course 'the Waste Land' really clicked in to me as favourites, although the whole collection carried weight. there were a few in french, which i searched out translations for, but i think they're missing something i would have gotten could i read in the original french.

the way Eliot tackles themes like love and death change as the years spanned in this collection go by; i found that interesting to keep on the pulse of. to me, the best lines in the collection were these, from a piece out of the "Poems 1920" segment:

i have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch
how should i use them for your closer contact?