What is the most influential poem of the 20th century

>>9047779
For the most ardent of leftists, this is the only interpretation. If they could begin to understand the heart of the poem - no less the fact Eliot was being classist ~on purpose~, or WHY he might do that - they would begin to slip into wrongthink.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 04:41:59 Post No.9047827
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>>9045674
I despise it when poets use short sentences from another language even if just for a verse. It seems incredibly phony. Still great obviously.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 04:59:59 Post No.9047885
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>>9047796
>DUDE WAR'S BAD BUT THERE'S BEAUTY IN WAR BECAUSE IT MAKES PEOPLE HOPEFUL FOR THE FUTURE LMAO

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Dulce et Decorum est.

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>>9045674
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>>9046073
pretty much

it's extremely difficult to make a case for anything else

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:11:16 Post No.9047925
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>>9047885
Waste Land is barely even about war; it's about communism and the degeneration of Western culture. It's Spenglerian.

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>>9047925

>it's about communism

"no"

>degeneration of western culture

yes

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:21:29 Post No.9047957
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All the Tom Bombodil poems in Fellowship of the Ring.

Anonymous 2017-02-02 02:30:05 Post No.9049668
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>>9047955
Communism as a rightwinger (which Eliot was) would outline it. Social democracy as (lowercase-c) communism, e.g.

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>>9045672
Hermes of the Ways
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