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>"The Hollow Men" by T.S Eliot

How could this skinny, effeminate, Christianized snob write such extraordinary and ominous poetry???

>> No.5292894

maybe he was cool inside

>> No.5292918
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>>5292894

have you heard him speak??

>> No.5292998

>>5292885

He had his own demons.

Also the lost generation was very close to the phenomenon of death and as such had great inspiration from it.

>> No.5293016

>>5292998
Depression and world wars.

>> No.5293018

>>5292885
>Christianized snob
There's your reason.

>> No.5293039

>>5292885
He read Dante.

>> No.5293166

Nigga never had a father and his mom was a fiend
She put the pipe down, but for every year she was sober
Her son's heart simultaneously grew colder

>> No.5294114

>>5293039

k, makes sense

>> No.5294120

>>5292885
>How could this skinny, effeminate, Christianized snob write such effeminate and worthless poetry???
ftfy

>> No.5294140

>>5293039
Dante isn't that ominous or good. Both Christians and effeminate faggots though.

>> No.5294148

>>5294140
>>5294120

WRONG.

Eliot was great because Pound helped him. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.5294167

>>5292885
Because he wasn't hamstrung by the glorification of mediocricy and humbleness found in Marxism

>> No.5294199

>>5292885

That and Wasteland was actually written by Ezra Pound, who was very generous trying to get other poets published. Everything after that is about his cats and taking walks on Sunday after church.

>> No.5294235

>>5294199
I grew up reading about his cats. It shocked me to read Hollow Men and The Wasteland in high school. If I liked those two latter poems, would I also enjoy reading Pound?

>> No.5294479

>>5294235
Pound is complex.

>> No.5294511

>>5292885
>skinny, effeminate, Christianized snob

(n)edgy(n+1)me

>> No.5294518

>>5294235

Yes.

And his readings are great too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUEYs3TsFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IpkOZjyVw

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>>5292885
>How could this skinny, effeminate, Christianized snob write such extraordinary and ominous poetry???