The Waste Land

[C.bronco]

Different parts of this poem have been meaningful to me during different phases of my life.

After college, I spent months researching T.S. (Terribly Sexy) Eliot just because if affected me so profoundly and I wanted to understand what he was going through when he wrote it.

I was lucky. I had a college professor who just decided to read the poem to us in its entirety. It was a wonderful gift.

It is such an important piece in the history of the art. I hope that those who have feelings and thoughts about the poem will share it here.

"Looking into the heart of light, the silence."

[C.bronco]

Hopefully, our benign Mod will fix my silly typo. I meant to type "The Waste Land" for the thread title. I need to look at the screen more often when I type!

[C.bronco]

Thank you Mr. In A Hat!

I hope there are other nerds who will join me here soon.

[rugcat]

As a teenager, one of the first poems that made realize the breadth poetry could encompass. The opening is as haunting and evocative as anything in literature.