his week’s reading was something else! I would have to say that my favorite would be The Waste Land. I just take fancy to the fragmented pieces Eliot leaves for us. It is all about finding out what it means, which is very difficult to do however that’s what I love about it. Not knowing and putting these pieces together to make some sense out of it! I would like to take a look at the first scene titled The Burial of the Dead where on line 71-72 Eliot says, “That corpse you planted last year in your garden,/ Has it begun to Sprout?” I just wish I could find this Unreal City that he speaks of where this garden is so then I could solve this poor man’s corpses case! I would like to think that Eliot and I would have been real good friends, not as close as Watson of course no one is as reliable as him! Anyways I believe the clues he does give us are important and the different languages he tells us give us a better understanding where he is trying to take us on this journey. I enjoy how he recollects his thoughts and shares with us his stories and experiences. I just feel like Eliot was a troubled man with many problems, shell shock is all over this poem as well. I hope everything turns out to be all right for him. By the end of this poem there’s a since of closure the cycle of life yet begins again! The waste land is literally a waste land when you think about all descriptions he gives us such as lines 186- 188 A rat crept softly through the vegetation/ Dragging its slimy bell on the bank/ While I was fishing in the dull canal” Here you can see how dirty the place he is describing just because of the rat climbing all over the vegetation that imagery that there is nothing there but this trash with rats.

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