This one's to anyone who's ever studied T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and been required to produce an original interpretation, preferably to be marked by a particularly viscious lecturer :D
lol, it's meant to be interpreted as it sounds- sexually! this poem is a take-off of probably the most famous poem of the 20th Century- The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot- an obscure, annoying, inpenetrable, yet absorbing, incredible, interesting, enigmatic and at the end of the day completely psychopathic poem. nobody has really produced one compelling argument as to what the poem means, or why it is like it is, and that's one of the reasons why it's so famous, as well as being a fantastic poem of course.
the 'a typist gets laid' refers to a pretty dingy and sordid scene in T.S.'s TWL.
to me personally, the original TWL was always about every day life and the masses; the dirty, ordinary, reality of mankind, in its worst light, and contrasting and comparing it with the essence of literature, culture versus counter-culture i suppose, if you will.
gosh. hope that wasn't too rambling for you! lol- can you tell i'm a lit student? i can waffle for England! :D
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it made me laugh- mm, fond memories! :p
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the 'a typist gets laid' refers to a pretty dingy and sordid scene in T.S.'s TWL.
to me personally, the original TWL was always about every day life and the masses; the dirty, ordinary, reality of mankind, in its worst light, and contrasting and comparing it with the essence of literature, culture versus counter-culture i suppose, if you will.
gosh. hope that wasn't too rambling for you! lol- can you tell i'm a lit student? i can waffle for England! :D
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