Status Updates From Selected Poems

listening to radiohead and annotating my eliot poem book wow #whiteboymaxxing

- hollow men (10/10) forever one of my favourite poems and what got me to appreciate poetry when I was younger- astonishing!
- ash wednesday (5/10) rlly beautiful 1st act and then the 5 following… yeah idk about this whole religious salvation as solving post ww1 poverty, massacres and man made famine dawg

as an atheist, reading t.s.eliot’s poems post his anglicanism conversion genuinely feels like the dog “he tryna ignore it” meme like what are we rlly doing here man

also ofc pretty much all eliot's portrayals of women r misogynist bcs even when they are explored w/ complexity, they are passive, hysterical, submissive etc. and often their lack of feminine sexual desire is used to showcase the end of civilisation's renewal but i do think it's interesting how eliot does showcase modernity's focus on marriage as the death of love and how women bear the brunt of this subjugation

- a game of chess (8/10)
- the fire sermon (7.5/10)
- death by water (7/10)
- what the thunder said (7.5/10)

incredible imagery, prose, tg for eliot's footnotes and 100's of scholars who analysed these poems to death - i am tired of apocalyptic imagery and continuous references to modern sexuality is dead --> woman infertile metaphor --> no regeneration for civilisation..reminiscent of 'i want your sex' discussions