Gordon's review of The Waste Land and Other Writings
The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by T.S. Eliot
Gordon's review
rating:
bookshelves:
poetry
recommended for:
anyone who wants to read something by the polar opposite of Walt Whitman
status:
Read in January, 2008
Why do I sense a link between the speaker/voice of The Waste Land and the character Pink in the movie The Wall? Perhaps it is the feeling that the soul is under seige from the powers that be, that we all are indeed robotic caricatures of ourselves because we are being manipulated to think and act in similar ways. We are indeed taught to be consumers, slaves to name brand products drummed into our brains from cradle to grave. I remember asking our 3rd grade why the history book said Columbus discovered America when there were already Native Americans living there, and why shouldn't we give them the credit for discovery. I was put in the corner of the room, facing the wall. The same wall as The Wall?
Back to The Waste Land. Here is the individual and the soul alienated in the post industrial London, but the setting could be in any modern city. The book is jammed with images and lines from previous works of art, such as Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress." The landscape of...more
Back to The Waste Land. Here is the individual and the soul alienated in the post industrial London, but the setting could be in any modern city. The book is jammed with images and lines from previous works of art, such as Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress." The landscape of...more
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