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The Waste Land and Other Poems

  • Jan 17, 2021
  • T.S. Eliot
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The Waste Land and Other Poems Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century In addition to the title poem this selecion includes The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Gerontion

  • Title: The Waste Land and Other Poems
  • Author: T.S. Eliot
  • ISBN: 9780156948777
  • Page: 308
  • Format: Paperback

    • Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century In addition to the title poem, this selecion includes The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock , Gerontion , Ash Wednesday , and other poems from Mr Eliot s early and middle work In ten years time, wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel0s Castle 1931 , Eliot has left upon EnglishFew readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century In addition to the title poem, this selecion includes The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock , Gerontion , Ash Wednesday , and other poems from Mr Eliot s early and middle work In ten years time, wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel0s Castle 1931 , Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English In 1948 Mr Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work as trail blazing pioneer of modern poetry.

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    1. T.S. Eliot

      Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present day poetry He wrote the poems The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 at the age of 25 , and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.See also enpedia wiki T.S._Eliot

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    1. Eliot is such a pompous old fart, how could anyone not love him When I was still in high school if you wanted to be in the group of people who had any pretensions as intellectuals or whatever else it was we had pretensions of Eliot was de rigueur I know large slabs of this poem by heart and when I worked as a house painter would quote it at length at the top of my voice when I ran out of Irish songs to sing while I rolled the walls which probably misses the point of the poem, but I love how it f [...]

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    2. My ode to T.S EliotT S Eliot, You walked among the starsIn your words, light trails blazing.Master of the modern,Ruler of the poetic.There is, and was, no poet to compare.Your mythology and legend stand immense.Behold the waste land of the world,Behold the glorious prose of a world shaker.Though some have called thee,Mighty and dreadfulplagiarist,Such slander upholds your greatness,The potency of your reinvention.There is a power to you in rewriting the eloquentSo behold T.S Eliot.A masterful po [...]

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    3. The Unreal Wastelands Labyrinths What Memory Keeps and Throws Away An Exercise in Recollection in flashes and distortions ____________________________You Hypocrite lecteur mon semblable, mon fr re ____________________________Chimes follow the Fire Sermon A rat crept softly through the vegetation departed A cold blast at the back, So rudely forc d, like Philomela.It was Tiresias , it was he who doomed all men,throbbing between two lives, knowing which Et O ces voix d enfants, chantant dans la cou [...]

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    4. Thomas Stearns Eliot A lot is hidden between those three words A whole world perhaps A depth measured by many oceans, a mystery viewed from bewitching lenses, a song marrying numerous notes, a candle thriving on inexhaustible wax.During his writing season, that spanned over three decades, T S Eliot penned many evocative and luscious poems, with his pen always leaving a signature cryptic mark over his dotted sheets Often a source of delusion to an enthusiastic poetic heart, his labyrinthine lyric [...]

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    5. In the upcoming book The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein, Virginia Woolf is pleased by hearing The Wasteland read by Eliot Several times she mentions that she has not read the poem but only listened to it I did the same with the Audible edition There is something to gain in listening.

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    6. Hey, three stars from me for poetry is good Why Because I don t like the stuff Yep, I m a savage heathen I LOVED the stuff as a teen I wrote notebooks filled with poetry or at least something like poetry back then Somewhere along the line I lost my taste for it and now I can barely stand it.Enter T.S Eliot and his highly vaunted The Waste Land In some distant past, when I was in college or maybe it was even high school, I was told by teachers just how good this poem was I don t remember any of t [...]

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    9. This is one of my favorite books of all time and to prove it, I named my dog Prufrock I wanted to put a picture of him here for you SO BAD that after stoically refusing for a million years, I finally opened a Flickr account so I upload my pix on GR So here is a shot of the time the cutest dog ever did the cutest thing ever and I actually died.

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    10. I think The Waste Land and the other poems in this collection Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, and Gerontion, Portrait of a Lady and Four Quartets are brilliant That said, I have to sort of hold T.S Eliot responsible for everything I hate about modern poetry Obviously T Stearns isn t wholly to blame, and I think he has a genius of his own, but I think that his influence on many of his poetic successors has mostly led to a disgusting pretension in poetry, which superficially veils emotions, quotes [...]

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    11. I once won 50 for reciting The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is a coffee shop Making this the only one of my books to pay for itself in a material way.

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    12. Although I have read The Waste Land a number of times, it has been a long time since I read it last, and I have never studied it very thoroughly, having become entranced with Four Quartets and devoted most of my time and attention to that magnificent poem Reading TWL again now, I am once again impressed, however, with its imagery and wealth of allusions Some of these allusions are ones I recognize, although many I do not Nonetheless, I am impressed with its modernist mood of enervation and disen [...]

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    13. We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown I may have just found my favourite American poet, even if some of his poems are incredibly religious in nature The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is absolutely wonderful and has some of the most fluid rhyming I ve ever read.

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    15. April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land________________Retracing myself through the labyrinth of the Waste Land Making an effort this time to read other sources, think about the project of making a mosaic out of a broken world.___________________Thank God for the Internet really inspiring to read these dense works and then have access to such a myriad of supplemental sources I ve read this before and always got the gist and the music, but it s really spectacular to be a [...]

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    16. I have measured out my life with coffee spoonsI first heard of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock while listening to a podcast of Entitled Opinions thanks Tom last winter That podcast concerned Dante, however I found Eliot s images both vivid and modern I then mentally shelved such for a future read This present week appeared apt While sorting through Marx and, then, Derrida on Marx and Shakespeare I found the prevailing winds favorable Diving into such, I didn t care for the titular poem in the [...]

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    18. 3.5 starsI have wanted to read The Waste Land since seeing various quotes taken from it strewn throughout Stephen King s works My favorites are I will show you fear in a handful of dust and This is how the world ends Not with a bang, but with a whimper Those quotes have always given me a little thrill when I see them mentioned in other books and novels, and they seemed to indicate to me that Eliot would be right up my alley, because it seemed that his work is dark, and a little twisted I am not [...]

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    19. I ll admit it I don t understand The Waste Land I read it a few times, I listened to it on audiobook, I even looked up analysis on the internet All to no avail, I don t get it Now don t get me wrong, I would love to say that I totally understand Eliot, that people just take the wrong approach, that most readers lack the wide reading necessary to catch his esoteric references I would bring it up at parties, perhaps with a quote or two to demonstrate my deep learning and penetrating mind I would g [...]

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    20. If you, like me, are no scholar on obscure cultural and literary references, foreign languages, deep symbolism and ideas broken in pieces all over the place, you might not find this exquisite poem collection very compelling And if you, like me, are lazy enough not to go back and forth to the editor footnotes or to have an analysis side text, or if you think Eliot isn t lyrical enough to be fully enjoyed, just go to youtube and search for a reading on The Waste Land from Sir Alec Guiness to read [...]

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    21. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is one of those pieces of art that sustains me I literally don t know who I would be without it I have been reading and rereading that poem since I was about 17, and each time I read it, I come to understand it a little bit differently It is of course, about death and aging, but also about place The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Ling [...]

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    22. In my opinion, T.S Eliot demonstrates why the written word as an art form will never go out of style His exploration of human consciousness, his celebration of language, his endless allusions no other art form would serve his purpose other than poetry Distilled in these poems is everything that makes writing great intellectual and emotional potency, beauty in both each line and the structure itself.And no, I don t understand The Waste Land but my goodness if it doesn t fire up my imagination.A w [...]

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    23. Of course this is a five star volume of some of the finest poetry ever written in the English languageokay Please don t hurt me.Over the past several days I have been re reading or slogging though Prufrock, Gerontion, the Waste Land and the other poems in this collection And why exactly would I do that Why would anyone do that without a professor and a syllabus involved in the undertaking Just think of it as a sort of self conducted experiment involving brain research, or consider it a self inqu [...]

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    24. Maybe I m too dull in the mind, especially when it comes to poetry, but I couldn t get most of Eliot s poems enough to feel anything I like some of his earlier poems though, those in Prufrock and Other Observations , especially the famous Prufrock, Portrait of a Lady , and Preludes The images of the streets even full of the fog , nighttime or just time and post war society are vibrant even in their pretty dark and serious themes The rhythm in his poems speak conversationally although there isn t [...]

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    25. Having read this times than I remember, it is time to write a quick review I started using this in the classes that I teach when, somehow or other, I noticed or heard or read about how this work is connected to The Great Gatsby another work I teach While, biographically, there may be some less than savory things to say about T.S Eliot, and perhaps even his approach to literary criticism, neither shows up in this work You should read it if you haven t and read it again if you only read it once b [...]

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    26. Lovesong, The Wasteland Four Quartets I come back to.Usually rather irritatedly because Eliot is annoying and pompous and self conscious obscurantist Also he s the High Priest of Modernism and I feel that should be Mina Loy Just sayin.But, Goddammit, there s something here.These heaps of broken images.Stuck in my mind.Gah I hate being this cliche.

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    28. I have read T.S Eliot s The Waste Land many times over the years I ve been reading it again over the holidays Today, I read the annotated version, carefully reviewing the notes notes on the notes thanks to google as well as listening to recordings on YouTube including a wonderful version with female and male voices Eliot himself along with Ted Hughes After all that, I took a break read something different Then, I sat back and forgot everything I knew, put aside everything I thought I d learned, [...]

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    29. This is probably one of the difficult reviews for me On one hand there is no doubt that Eliot is an absolute master, but on the other I found his poetry frustratingly inaccessible and not enjoyable to read His immense influence on modernism is clearly evident, but his use of mythology and literary references made reading his poems feel at times as if each line was disconnected from the rest I consider myself fairly well read in classical literature, mythology etc but I felt as if I needed an in [...]

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    30. Although I wouldn t usually recommend spending three months of your life focused on one poem, the three months of my college education where I did so with the Wasteland weren t for naught I still love opening up this poem and choosing a passage and remembering how it felt to untangle one line from another, flipping back and forth between sections to see where those lines tied to others, and just marveling at the sheer manic genius of Eliot.I mean, you could also go on vacation to France for thre [...]

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