English Major Humor

The Wasteland! okay, the first few times I read it, I hated it. after discussing it, I think the reason I hated it was there are so many different ways to interpret it. I think that has something to do with the fact that Eliot wasn't the only one who wrote it. it was a coauthoring deal that went through many revisions. listening to Fiona Shaw read it helps see just one of the ways to interpret it &if you emphasize diff parts you can find other ways. part is on youtube. anyway, now love it!

(1/2) Advice for getting through the wasteland, a direct quote from one of the most brilliant modernist scholars in the world when assigning the text to a survey class: Now, The Waste Land, if you have not read it before, can feel very frustrating. And so what I want you to do as readers is do not concern yourself about whether you understand everything in The Waste Land. What I want you to think about instead is what does it feel like to read that poem? What emotions do you feel? ...