![]() But he was also the kind of poet who put little store by erudite allusions, and professed himself quite content to have his poetry read by those who had little idea what it meant. "Eliot is often see as an intellectually difficult, fearfully elitist writer, and so in some ways he was. My Lit book, How to Read a Poem, said it best: ![]() Understanding Eliot's poems is not the point the point is to recognize that he writes with incredible skill and to just lose yourself in the words. Eliot has been quoted as saying he's perfectly aware that no one has any idea what his poems are about, and he's perfectly cool with that. ![]() But (and this is the great part) that doesn't matter. Does this mean I understand a single goddamn word of it? Of course not. Eliot: the man is ungodly brilliant and I love almost everything he's written. ![]() I'm trying to write a term paper on this poem (key word is "trying") and then I realized, hey, I should waste some time by writing a review of the poem on Goodreads! So here we are. ![]()
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