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cruellest month? no. i meant april is the COOLEST month. party hard
- t.s. eliot probably (via silentseas)
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You know Hemingway would be all about the selfie.
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July 17, obviously, is Take Your Poet to Work Day. Herewith, handy cutouts of several bards.
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
Pictured: T. S. Eliot and cat.
A handy reminder that tomorrow is Take Your Poet to Work Day
englishmajorhumor reblogged
cruellest month? no. i meant april is the COOLEST month. party hard
- t.s. eliot probably (via theclassicreader)
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In a world where we tend to say “To each his own,” Eliot wants to grab you by the shirt and yell, “It’s not all equal! You think people are going to read Fifty Shades of Grey a thousand years from now?”
Shmoop on T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (via wakeupthunderbabe)
Man, if you had told me as a sophomore in high school that in college, I would voluntarily write a paper about a work of T.S. Eliot, I would have thought that you were shitting me so hard.
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!
The Halloween music I was listening to went off, but I still haven’t returned to the poem. Thank you for the advice though.
Anonymous asked:
(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? ...
(2/2) re: Eliot and The Waste Land … What emotions do you feel? What is that experience like? Because I’m going to suggest to you that that is part of the poem’s point. So if you don’t understand it, think instead about how it makes you feel, and we’ll start there.” Hope this helps whoever needs it, and potentially inspires others to give reading the poem a try. There’s also an iPad app that has Fiona Shaw reading it. It’s a great reading, and it could help to hear and see it read?
Thank you! I’ll give it a try…once I can get myself to stop listening to Halloween music…
Read it in all the different voices, or where you think the voices end…if I remember it right LOL
Good idea!
Read it without the endless footnotes, and then read it with them.
My edition doesn't have footnotes, which is nice, so that's what I've been doing--though I have looked a few things up.
Any advice for a gal who's trying to get through Eliot's "The Waste Land" and likes it but doesn't know what to take away from it?
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." —T.S. Eliot
Today, July 17, is Take Your Poet to Work Day, so this morning I took T.S. and cat for a little drive around my town while I ran some errands. Don’t worry, I cracked the window for them when I left the car.
englishmajorhumor reblogged
July 17, obviously, is Take Your Poet to Work Day. Herewith, handy cutouts of several bards.
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
Pictured: T. S. Eliot and cat.