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The Waste Land and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot

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Advantages Ground-breaking, complex, brilliant

Disadvantages Over complex, unnecessary showing off with literary allusions.

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The Waste Land is not an accessible poem. Crammed full of allusions to literary works you may not be familiar with, Eliot predicts this sufficently to off er you notes at the back.

But he notes are often as obscure as the orginal refernces, if not more so. One, for example, Eloit quotes in the orginal GReek. Well that helps a lot.Thanks.

Complex, brilliant, irritating and inspiring by turn; there is no doubt this poem makes a major contribution to English Literature.

Eliot dedicated to Ezra Pound - "il milior fablio" - the better craftsman - because apoparently Pound cut and shaped the work to make the poem we have today.

It explores language and themes in a way that broke ground. You have to read it out loud to your self (at least in your head) to getthe best out of it, as the cadences, rhythma and structure sing meaning as much as the words.

As Miss Piggy would say: "Pretentious? Moi?"

Yes, Eliot. But it is still brilliant. Irritatingly.

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