Love Amongst Ruins - Week 12

This week we read two of T.S. Eliot's poems: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land." The first poem's title would make you think you were getting ready to read a lovely poem about love, but in reality the poem portrayed failed opportunities and instead became a love song for the reader; a warning to not follow the same path as the speaker. Eliot's "Waste Land" was challenging to read and interpret. I believe it would take me several weeks of deep study and analyzing to really get a hold on what Eliot wanted to portray. I would compare this poem to putting together a very intricate puzzle with many pieces. Until you examine the many different angles and then put them together can you really see the whole picture that Eliot painted. At first I really did not like "The Waste Land," but I feel with further study, which I think is how Eliot wanted his readers to approach this poem, I could appreciate it more.