false <![CDATA[The Waste Land and Other Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174441553m/400412.jpg 400412 15 Considered the most important poem of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an oblique and fascinating view of the hopelessness and confusion of purpose in modern Western civilization. Published in 1922—the same year as Joyce’s equally monumental Ulysses—The Waste Land is a series of fragmentary dramatic monologues and cultural quotations that crossfade into one another. Eliot believed that this style best represented the fragmentation of society, and his poem portrays a sterile world of panicky fears and barren lusts, and of human beings waiting for some sign or promise of redemption. Mirroring the destruction and disillusionment of World War I, The Waste Land had the effect of a bomb exploded in a genteel drawing room, just as its author intended. --Randy Malamud 389834 1922 The Waste Land and Other Poems total:3166|5:1587|4:1035|3:439|2:77|1:28| 3166 13574 3863 133 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Wed Dec 26 20:53:07 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 20:59:34 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 10 21:53:20 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 22:18:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 20 19:20:09 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 19:36:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 20:37:47 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 21:09:35 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 25 16:42:42 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:06:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Aug 17 13:48:09 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:51:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1970 Thu Apr 17 16:03:55 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 20:37:05 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Sun Dec 21 10:12:42 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 10:14:13 -0800 2008 7 5 0 false false Mon Nov 24 16:49:25 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 16:49:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 20:49:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 20:55:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 09 13:38:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 13:42:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Thu Apr 02 15:43:46 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 15:47:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 10:55:09 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 10:34:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 05 13:02:40 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 12 07:40:18 -0800 2009
Sometimes, when I'm writing, I lose the story I'm trying to tell. The words stop. I look around to find that I'm no longer on the path I thought I was. Sometimes I'm on no path at all. I have to backtrack. I have to find a thread - even if i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 03 13:07:39 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 13:19:13 -0700 2008 "Love Song" is the best example I have found of an author using...more...]]> 4 0 true false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 03 19:18:24 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 19:45:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:01:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:05:42 -0700 2009 through eternity
"This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
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And what remains with me is tha...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=400412