I find the whole thing a bit long. I wont say overrated, because it is incredible, but it's not fit for regular human consumption in its entirety. Maybe if I lived back then and had to listen to Mina Loy blather on at parties, then I might not find it so hard to deal with all at once, but for now, small doses. And this one dose is potent enough.
PS: I know you were just joking, but I thought some explanation was in order.
Yikes, you actually think listening to Eliot is beautiful? I mean, the poetry is, of course, but his voice? He sounds so sickly and stuffy, which is indeed appropriate, but I think I'd much rather listen to Cate Blanchett read it or even Avery Brooks or Charles Robinson.
"This music crept by me upon the waters"daregaleFebruary 11 2004, 19:11:44 UTC
I've often thought this poem would make a good play although I'm not sure if it would be read in several voices or in one with other actors silently miming the actions.
I read it everyday for a whole semester. I would wake up in the morning with lines running through my head. Literature really does create a suspended world in which the events are more like places than events; you can always return to them.
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I read it everyday for a whole semester. I would wake up in the morning with lines running through my head. Literature really does create a suspended world in which the events are more like places than events; you can always return to them.
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