Mine too--"The Waste Land".
I punished my students with that one every semester for 30 years or more. Great stuff.
I'm not much of an Eliot fan.Jeff
"The Waste Land" seems so modern--yet it's almost 100 years old. Love it!
People have different tastes, but I feel about "The Waste Land" as a poem like I feel about "Principia Mathematica" as a mathematics treatise: Both had to have been written "to be gotten out of the way", but I don't have to enjoy them 8-)
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Mine too--"The Waste Land".
I punished my students with that one every semester for 30 years or more. Great stuff.
I'm not much of an Eliot fan.
Jeff
"The Waste Land" seems so modern--yet it's almost 100 years old. Love it!
People have different tastes, but I feel about "The Waste Land" as a poem like I feel about "Principia Mathematica" as a mathematics treatise: Both had to have been written "to be gotten out of the way", but I don't have to enjoy them 8-)
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