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Oct 12, 2022 · The Waste Land’s afterlife was a self-fulfilling prophecy strategically crafted by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, two writers who sought to meaningfully connect with what they thought of as the...
It was published in 1922, after Eliot adopted Pound's recommendations and omitted much extraneous--and connective--material, and it immediately became the most famous and the most controversial example of the new poetry.
I. The Burial of the Dead. April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering. Earth in forgetful snow, feeding. A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee.
Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street. Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations. Dissolve the floors of memory. And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street lamp that I pass. Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark. Midnight shakes the memory.
Hysteria. By T. S. Eliot. As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles.
The 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot is highly distinguished as a poet, a literary critic, a dramatist, an editor, and a publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”...
To seize and clutch and penetrate; Expert beyond experience, He knew the anguish of the marrow. The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh. Allayed the fever of the bone. . . . . . Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye. Is underlined for emphasis; Uncorseted, her friendly bust. Gives promise of pneumatic bliss. The couched Brazilian jaguar.
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