The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot

ModernTimepiece Says:

Sep 28, 2011 - Uh, man, this poem is called "The Waste Land." Have you ever BEEN to Missouri?

baashish Says:

Sep 30, 2011 - missouri or whatever...listen to the poem....and listen to it twice more, for once shall not be enough.

jacobmatthes2 Says:

Oct 8, 2011 - hypocrite reader, my double, my brother

ulp007 Says:

Oct 8, 2011 - 

ulp007 Says:

Oct 8, 2011 - English was yet another mask for TommyBoy. And, by the way, the difference between real English a la Churchill and English in a Missouri English family was not as overwhelming as it is today. Dig? Listening to Auden gone American is rather ghastly, int? Or shall we promote Gicano?

eastwood1941 Says:

Nov 2, 2011 - Eliot's understanding of England was that of an American tourist, and leads to a profoundly flawed, profoundly interesting understanding of what England is.In the end, it doesn't matter that Eliot was more American than English. He lived in a vision of England even more bizarre than that of P. G. Wodehouse (who was English), but it is the poetry that matters.I believe his best poem is not "The Wasteland" or even "Four Quartets".I believe it is "La Figlia Que Piange". Anybody agree?

kosmischesynth Says:

Nov 7, 2011 - Perhaps the understanding of a foreigner to England is more true, certainly more perfect, than that of an Englisher. I know that I don't have any concept of England, a country where I was born and have lived all my life, except from literature and films.

Surells Says:

Nov 8, 2011 - Wonderful poem, though I prefer The Love Song of J A P myself. I can understand 0194D to a degree though, when I studied it at school I didn't like it either (though I was not such a drama queen about it), but as time has gone on I've come to see why it is so powerful. I think its a poem to complex and too adult in its melancholy to be understood by the average child.Thank you for the upload, even though he's not a great reader I love knowing I'm hearing Elliot's voice. These emotions are his.

eastwood1941 Says:

Nov 8, 2011 - Interesting comment, which I think I can relate to myself. Being English (as, presumably, being any other nationality) could well be a disadvantage in one respect, in that one is too close to the reality to see it objectively- not seeing the wood for the trees.But Eliot's vision of England was a romantic/intellectual one, because that's what he was- his modernism is only skin deep.I apologise for my mis-spelling of "La Figlia Che Piange", and would recommend Eliot's reading of this.

JayGatsbyOdysseus Says:

Dec 12, 2011 - Sort of like the reverse of Chrisopher Hitchens, although Eliot a poet, Hitchens a journalist.

Khuno2 Says:

Dec 25, 2011 - He should never have read his own work aloud. Awful voice set to inarguably one of the best poems ever written.

mr093242 Says:

Dec 27, 2011 - i love ts eliots poetry, but not when he reads it

chowchow0726 Says:

Jan 8, 2012 - He sounds like a frightfully educated foreigner, like someone deeply learned from India, almost...

ephemeraldeep Says:

Jan 9, 2012 - I actually enjoy his voice- not in this one, but when he reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Portrait of a Lady." It sounds harsh here, but in those recordings, it's rather soothing.

BurntLoveletters Says:

Feb 23, 2012 - doing this for A level, just found great article on Hyacinths in the poem! :) intuitivegenius.blogspot.com/2012/02/hyacinths-as-moral-paragons-in-decadent.html

pysgodfach Says:

Feb 29, 2012 - I love these horrible poems, but the voice is the most annoying thing in the world.

smilesweetieful Says:

Mar 19, 2012 - I like so much this beautiful poem.

laRoseee69 Says:

Mar 30, 2012 - I quite like hearing him read it while reading it myself to follow along. I find it helps me get through the poem pleasantly enough, with a sort-of hypnotic effect.

trollingisme Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - under the hollow oak;asunder the viceless tree;made 'manningham'( by preferance);digested disagreed;mind cannot really cope;with the body vulnerable;not cope;not really;Unless Boo!Da!

soberchimera61 Says:

Apr 5, 2012 - Roland Deschain brought me here.

obiwanobiwan13 Says:

Apr 8, 2012 - Indeed he was...I'm an American English major, and every time I hear someone try and claim Eliot for America I nearly burst--The man was as English in his soul as they came...he made a statement once that his poetry wouldn't have been what it was if he'd been born in England OR if he'd stayed in America...So, in a sense, Eliot "belongs" to the Ages--from Shakespeare to Wagner to Milton to Greek myth, he brings it all to life again, makes it new again.But in his STYLE--English! :)

j0ofez Says:

Apr 16, 2012 - I agree with you but the argument from authoriy you use to support it is a fallacy. If you don't want people pointing it out and using it against you don't use it.

baashish Says:

May 20, 2012 - it is only a trivial matter, the accent by which a man speaks.