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Summary: Prufrock's Magnum Opus...
Review: ...not exactly "The Love Song..." but "The Waste Land" is Prufrock's alter-ego's best. It says that nobility, moderation, standards of beauty and high taste--all the so called great ideas--have been cast aside for love of the almighty dollar, pursuit of success and wealth. What? You don't believe me? You didn't read that? Read it again. And again. A note or two: Ezra Pound, TS Eliot's friendly foe, did editing of the original manuscript cutting about half of it, but TS loved the work he made the reader go through, so there are great passages of pure license that generally makes the reader go mad, but nevertheless are quite compelling. TS was also quite an aficionado of the French Symbolists, especially Jules Laforgue...this inflenced his work greatly.
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Summary: Don't let its size fool you
Review: Despite a mere 49 pages, this book is weighty indeed in substance. The footnotes to "The Waste Land" alone take up 4 and 1/2 pages, and a lot of them are quotations in Latin. There are also a few poems written in French, with no translations for those readers who might not happen to be familiar with that language. Also, surely the editor(s) could have come up with a few more poems by such an important poet. I suppose the meager selection was chosen in anticipation of readers' wearied minds after trudging through such heavy work. All the same, it is T.S. Eliot, and there are good reasons why "The Waste Land" and "Prufrock" are considered classics.
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Summary: Un examen breve y hermoso al mejor poeta de lengua ingles
Review: Este pequeño volumen, además de tener un precio más que conveniente, ha demostrado, a pesar de su brevedad, contener las composiciones poéticas fundamentales de T.S. Eliot, tal como la Tierra Baldía (Waste Land) y la Canción de Amor de J. Alfred Prufrock. Por ello lo hacen un volumen imprescindible para la lectura de uno de los máximos representantes de la poesía en lengua inglesa del siglo XX, T.S. Eliot. Una posibilidad de revisar poesía maestra a un excelente precio y con una buena calidad de impresión.
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Summary: Search for your soul
Review: He's the one and only poet of modern man's soul. All modern literature owes to him. Not only this, but he had great imagination and a wry sense of humour. Among his "minor" works sonnets like "The hippopotamus" is worth a poem of some modern writer. Read him to inspire your mind!
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Summary: the contents merits the review
Review: how can you give something that includes T. S. Eliot's amazing work "the wasteland" anything less than 5 stars. what I find more interesting in this small compilation, however, is the inclusion of "la figlia che piange," a work which is vastly underappreciated in current scholarly Eliot research. While you can amuse yourself with something like the Wasteland or The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, which are both masterpieces, I would encourage the potential buyer to look more at the lesser known pieces, which I believe hold just as strong a significance. This volume holds some profoundly important works while still being affordable for the average pale and yearning college student. Have fun, academes cate
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Summary: What the thunder said . . .
Review: 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.
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Summary: What the thunder said . . .
Review: 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.
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Summary: T.S.Eliot's poems
Review: 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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Summary: T.S.Eliot's poems
Review: 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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Summary: The Waste Land
Review: 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.
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