The Waste Land I’ve just discovered a marvellou…
The Waste Land
I’ve just discovered a marvellous presentation of TS Eliot�s great poem The Waste Land. It has the text on the left with notes on the right in a separate frame. Great, if simple, design. There are links to other works too, although not Four Quartets. That can be found elsewhere with notes on another page.
Some people might assume the commentary and notes make for dry academic posturing. Well, maybe they’re not wrong, but they are also the kind of people who sneer at Eliot�s use of untranslated Latin and Greek text for the epigram. They should perhaps consider the possibility that it is like that for a specific purpose, and not only to �exclude� those who didn�t have a Classical education. Maybe it signifies the resistance to understanding that the modern world, i.e. the waste land of modernity, presents to someone trying to understand it. Of course, there are those who don�t want to understand. See the link to Mark Steyn�s article below.
Other SpikeMagazine.com posts of interest:
- This land
- Kelman in the land of the free
- Never understand
- Waste, desolation and other pleasures
- Huge imago
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