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Title: The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0-486-40061-1 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 08 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Waste Land
Comment: The Waste Land is sometimes considered to be the greatest poem of the twentieth century. This collection from Dover (at an amazing price) includes this and several other of Eliot's poems. The Waste Land, however, is considered to be his masterpiece, his 'epic,' in a sense. In fact, it is interesting to compare Eliot's bleak vision of a land of waste to other, earlier epics.
The poem is in some sense a warning, in another sense a cry of despair. The image of the wasted land, of the spiritually degenerate human race, is depressing, yet the poem ends with a glimmer (albeit faint) of hope--salvation is possible, however unlikely. I am no expert on this poem, and like most people understand only fragments of it, but what I have gained from the poem I have found to be very enlightening, and very stirring.
Eliot draws many references from the old legend of the Fisher-King, and an idea of what this legend is about (in all its many forms) is useful in interpreting the poem. This is undoubtedly one of the classics in both English literature and modernist writings, and very worthwhile for anyone who is willing to take the time to study it.
Rating: 5
Summary: What the thunder said . . .
Comment: T.S. Eliot wrote "The Waste Land" against the backdrop of a world gone mad-- searching for reason inside chaos, and striving to build an ark of words by which future generations could learn what had gone before, T.S. Eliot explores that greatest of human melancholy-- disillusionment. This is a difficult poem, but one well-worth exploring to its fullest. The inherent rhythms of Eliot's speech, the delightful, though sometimes obscure, allusions, and intricate word-craft, create an atmosphere of civilization on the edge-- in danger of forgetting its past, and therefore repeating it. In the end, only the poet is left, to admonish the world to peace, to preserve the ruins of the old life, and to ensure that future generations benefit from the disillusions of the past.
"Prufrock" is perhaps the best "mid-life crisis" poem ever written. In witty, though self-deprecating and often downright bitter, tones, Eliot goes on a madcap but infinitely somber romp through the human mind. This is a poem of contradictions, of repression, of human fear, and human self-defeat. Technically, "Prufrock" is brilliant, with a varied and intricate style suited to the themes of madness, love, and self-doubt.
Buy this. You won't regret it. If you're an Eliot fan, you probably have it anyway. If you're not, you will be when you put it down.
Rating: 4
Summary: T.S.Eliot's poems
Comment: The poems written by T.S.Eliot are extremely enticing poems in the way that they carry various themes which have been used throughout. These themes hold a strong message and I believe that the message that is depicted from Eliot gives us a way to think forward about our own lives. Eliot aims to search for the meaning of life, something we all hope to discover. However, soon after I read these peoms I understood that "life" does not have only one definition. People see life in different ways and have different perspectives and the experiences they have, may dismiss what they once thought life was about. Therefore, my message to all my readers, is that do not waste time searching for what cannot be found! Thankyou! Katrina Kang
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Title: Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0156332256 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 20 March, 1968 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Selected Poems Of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams ISBN: 0811202364 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: January, 1975 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction) ISBN: 0156907399 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Palm at the End of the Mind : Selected Poems and a Play by Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens ISBN: 0679724451 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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