Explore the WastelandI read the waste land by T.S. Elliot again yesterday, and also found some very interesting, helpful links to a site which helps you explore the poem. With all the references this really does make sense.
I am right now just grappling with trying to keep track of where the narrator changes, and making use of the exploration site to get a sense of the references. It is beautiful, of course, but a bit puzzling.
The range of references from the Bible to Whitman, to Chaucer is daunting, so I will continue on and post again on this poem when I have a better sense of it.
Listening to Elliot himself read is also helpful: this link to audio files/ the wasteland is, I think, great!
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