“My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
“Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.
“What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
“I never know what you are thinking. Think.”
T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" documentary (1987)
Strange that a documentary allegedly about The Waste Land should spend such a long time reading Prufrock.
Read more: The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Hollow Men.
The failures that come from inaction - living with them - accommodating them.
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
a very meaningful poem, this is an example of a poem that I like
a beautiful rhyme, holds a very deep meaning if we want to contemplate it.
It's been a long time since I even heard the name T.S. Eliot. Do you think it is worthwhile to watch the documentary?
It's a bit like the cutting-room-floor-edition, has some useful biog tho, like Ezra Pound giving the original poem a sharp tonsure, making it mercifully shorter and more incomprehensible. It does kinda assume you've read it, so is more opinions than some lecture.
Hahaha,
I get it.
I have some down time in a couple hours. Better to spend my time reading.
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I've never read Elliot, only snippets. Could never get into it, as much as I wanted to. Have read so much about all his works I feel I HAVE read him... same with James Joyce. Maybe I'll give the wasteland another go.
lol. I think the Hollow Men and Prufrock are easier to read - also fewer clever references to older works few people ever read these days.
I'm not a huge fan of long poems - I prefer lyrical prose (bit of an odd term) or short-form - but I have given a few other references to lit works from about a century ago that may inform the impending tyranny.
Your lyrical prose writer of choice?
I had in mind writers like Nabokov, some Calvino, some Coehlo, even imaginative gothic works like Gormenghast.
Then again, I really cannot remember the last novel I finished. lol.