Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Waste Land

This poem was a wasteland of ideas and thoughts.  Honestly I just finished reading TS Eliot's The Waste Land, for the third time, and it still makes absolutely no sense to me. I read it through once to just get the idea of it in my head, then when I got to the end I didn't even know how I had started this "poem". So I went through a second time trying to decipher every part. Then I broke it down even further into every topic and then one step farther going inot depth on every sentence. STILL nothing. It even says that on page 684. "You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember nothing?". EXACTLY! Thank you T.S. Eliot! He bounced around so much that I could not even remember anything at all. This poem was so so so confusing and I cannot wait to get into class tomorrow morning to hear what everyone else thought and to see what Scott has to say about it because I'm going to have a hard time sleeping thinking about "nothing".