The Wasteland
Feb. 13th, 2011 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI took Eliot down to verify the quote I used to head the previous post- and found myself reading Prufrock to Ailz. Afterwards I read her The Waste Land. Eliot is very good to read aloud. Later I found myself telling Mike- via Skype- that he should read The Waste Land. Well, one should, shouldn't one? It's a foundation stone of the modern world.
I've been thinking about the parallels between Eliot and Picasso- how the multiple voices of The Wasteland are like the multiple viewpoints in a Cubist painting and how its use of quotation and near-quotation resembles collage. Both artists are trying to get at the truth by surrounding it.
I've been thinking about the parallels between Eliot and Picasso- how the multiple voices of The Wasteland are like the multiple viewpoints in a Cubist painting and how its use of quotation and near-quotation resembles collage. Both artists are trying to get at the truth by surrounding it.
