This Be the Verse! Yes! They fuck you up, your mum and dad. It's taken me years to realize that they don't mean to, but they do. I like to keep that poem at the back of my mind. It's just a simple answer among many for why we're so fucked up sometimes, and there's nothing we can do about it but move on (and not have our own kids to fuck up ourselves! ha).
I probably agree about it being balanced for Eliot. I just don't usually like reading Pound's poetry, despite the fact that I love the direction that he and Eliot took poetry as a whole. Cannot stand most of the Romantic stuff, so I'm really glad Modernism came along. But still, I don't always want the footnotes to outnumber the lines of poetry on a page. That's also why I can't usually get into The Waste Land.
