Posted by pgomes
Apr 9, 2009 4:34 am

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• It can be a little confusing--but that's part of the reason THE WASTE LAND by T.S. Eliot, from which "The Burial of the Dead" comes, is so famous. It broke all kinds of "rules," and its bizarreness played a big role in spurring on the modernist literary movement. Thanks for sharing the links to help us make sense of it all!

  Apr 9, 2009 1:08 pm
  by MaggieH (admin)

• Ah, I see it's part of the very odd and difficult to make out modernist movement. The few things I've read of that have been similarly hard to make anything out of. In any case, thanks for the links. You're a life-saver!

  Apr 11, 2009 6:21 pm
  by seuzy13

• Eliot wrote a lot of spontaneous beautiful blather. Ezra Pound cut it down to its present form, to create a corpse of singular beauty, still ringing in our ears after many decades.
  Poetry should be read aloud, and let the words bring-forth whatever meaning they can suck from the universal unconscious, for your pleasure!
  
  xØx
  jd

  Apr 24, 2009 10:44 pm
  by jivadas

• Dear pgomes,
  I laughed when I saw your title - thanks for saying what I was thinking. There were some good lines and thoughts in this piece, but basically I didn't get it. I feel better knowing that I am not alone. Also, I would just like to say I like the positive energy with DailyLit. Many sites I read are just negative venting and ranting. Here it seems people are honest, but they offer support and solutions. COOL!

  Apr 27, 2009 7:48 am
  by ebe321

• I'm really enjoying Masters of Verse. A friend had forwarded Robert Frost's Reluctance to me and that made me sign up. It just gets better and better!

  Jun 19, 2009 4:00 pm
  by dreamdust

• @dreamdust Glad to hear you're enjoying it! I am too :)

  Jun 21, 2009 8:36 pm
  by MaggieH (admin)

• I finished and I think my favorite poem was Amy Lowell's To an Early Daffodil. Although the Frost/Wordsworth/Dunbar poems were memorable also. Onto Mark Twain...

  Jun 25, 2009 5:01 pm
  by dreamdust

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