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Chargement... The Waste Land and Other Writings (édition 2001)par T. S. Eliot (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I’m not sure what to say about this one… yet. This book contained many of Eliot’s poems, not just The Waste Land. I found his earlier work easier on the brain. I read The Waste Land twice and though it left me with distinct images, I’m still not sure what was going on. It’s strange to thoroughly enjoy a poem and yet not really know why. The essays in the book bored me. Quotes from The Waste Land: April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. That corpse you planted last year in the garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? ...throbbing between two lives, Here is no water but only rock Rock and water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water If there were water we should stop and drink Amongst the rock one cannot stop and think Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand If there were only water amongst the rock Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses If there were water Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman --But who is that on the other side of you? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Dayadhvam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison Shantih shantih shantih (a formal ending to an Upanishad. "The Peace which passeth understanding" is our equivalent to this word.) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression." As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays. In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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T.S. Eliot's conversion from Unitarianism to high-church, Catholic Anglicanism discomfited many of the secular literati. Although Eliot expresses a Christian sentiment in much of his writings and rightfully casts fascist totalitarianism as antithetic to the spirit of Christianity, Eliot's work is marred by a few unmistakable, anti-Semitic statements, displaying the effects of the spiritual darkness of the pre-WWII period leading up to Hitler's attempted, global eradication of the Jewish people.
Despite Eliot's apparent antisemitism, Paul Dean concludes that "however much Eliot may have been compromised as a person, as we all are in our several ways, his greatness as a poet remains." ( )