Thread: A Defense of 'Lord of the Rings' against Modernist criticism
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Old 02-25-2011, 02:33 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil View Post
Say we're reading Eliot's The Waste Land and get as far as:
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Originally Posted by TS
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow Le Prince d'Aquitaine ŕ la tour abolie These fragments I have shored against my ruins 430 Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih
Should I call it a day and assume I'm just too dumb to get it?
I'm not sure there is anything to get here other than Eliot having a pee contest with Ezra Pound about who can drop the most random references to/quotes from tradition in the shortest sequence of verses...
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