T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

[@trenchantinsight]

Eliot's voice is magical. Perfectly languid and lugubrious with a lingering element of wistfulness. I could listen to it all day...

[@MaxJahner]

I actually enjoyed Lia Williams the most. Excellent poem, nice hearing it after reading it.

[@MrigankMongia]

"... _Yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden_ _Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not_ _Speak, my eyes failed..., I was neither_ _Living nor dead, and I knew nothing_ _Looking into the heart of light, the Silence._ " 4:00

[@CourageInCollapse]

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[@GabrielEGiron-wx9lr]

Such a gift! Shantih

[@robsgerald6609]

Ah, Ulysses is magnificent. Actually changed my life, such a comprehensive and powerful statement. Joyce is a hero.

[@williamheywood9115]

I love these words, I don't understand them all, but I love these words. For the same reason I love Under Milk Wood and Finnegans Wake.

[@moomoomoomzq]

I couldn't agree more. It's like Joyce thought "sod it, I'm just going to write the biggest load of balls and sell it as modernism; let's see how successful I am at it". I'm having to study it now for my course and it irks me because I don't wish to pay him any more heed.

[@Kirk00077]

This arrangement's rendition of "A Game of Chess" is brilliant.

[@Hansell99]

One of the great poems by one of the great poets. Eliot noted the structure and cadence was dictated by the book From Ritual to Romance. Much of the content was inspired by the book The Golden Bough. If you read the first you will understand immediately what he meant. The Golden Bough is quite another endeavor, it is a huge work by James Frazier about all of the various myths, beliefs and rituals of peoples throughout the world. You will find out why voodoo and which doctors do what they do, how and why humans began believing in and started worshipping gods as far back as humans started recording these things. You will also find the background, truths, and myths that led to current religions. The Golden Bough in my opinion is must reading for everyone at college level. The Waste Land is about the loss of the intimate and visceral connection humans used to have with the natural world and life. The waste land is in fact modern life. V. What the Thunder Said ... We who were living are now dying With a little patience. Eliot is saying we live an empty ghost of a life compared to what life was before. It was noted at the time this poem was published that it was a horrifying autopsy on the body of modern humanity. To get a full idea about what the words mean read The Waste Land Norton Critical edition. It has many insights including correspondences between Eliot and Ezra Pound as Eliot was writing this poem. IL Miglior Fabbro, 'the better craftsman' was Eliot thanking Pound for help in editing and refining the poem. The scene below was seen by Eliot looking out his window. The crowds of workers heading off to work each day, as the walking dead on a treadmill with no passion of life. Saint Mary Woolnoth is a real place. Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours

[@BrianDornTFP]

Nice production and interesting concept - kudos to all who read!

[@TheMimifur]

The best readings that I have ever heard have been the readings by Stephen Spender and the most wonderful experience which was in an east end theatre and I really wish I could remember. I think the reader was Fiona

[@twoships]

lia williams is great!

[@mailtrap22]

Agreed!

[@santosd6065]

+Krissy Leigh All the female voices are her? Wow@

[@nieuwbooy]

For people who complain that The Waste Land is obtuse and esoteric they should read Finnegans wake, Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow or the Cantos by Ezra Pound.

[@mailtrap22]

I really like Lia Williams' reading. Horses for courses..

[@marioriospinot]

Nice.

[@xyzpdqist]

Ezra Pound, Is on the axis radio again. T.S. Eliot, Fearful and shaking. Fredrick Nietzsche, Proclaims an ode to original sin, And that one only gets what he has taken.

[@3leopardsblue]

this poem ..if you actually read it..hasnt much in it about any war. its a tale of disintegration. and of some sort of haunting.

[@mariecolvin5563]

[@PoetrySpokencom]

One of my all-time favorites. If any are interested, would love your thoughts on a reading I recently performed of "The Waste Land". The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 1 of 5 The Burial of the Dead

[@darrenbendanillo4000]

poetry reading but there is poetry acting

[@psikorsky]

The Lia Williams reading really doesn't work for me. I seriously reccomend the iPad version of The Waste Land. There are some excellent readings there.

[@marioriospinot]

Get on with it, opinions at the end.

[@imagineadragon]

I much prefer "The Waste Land" to "Ulysses." I find "Ulysses" obtuse and nearly unreadable - my own opinion, I assert, because there are many who prefer "Ulysses." ... though I find them somewhat insane.

[@muhannedbennana1714]

this is not poetry, it is just a short story

[@Funky_Adventure]

The Lia Williams readings are pretty awful to my ears but, of course, each to their own.

[@marioriospinot]

Nice.