Far harder to recognize these in the moment, over cocktails.īy another light, though, Woolf’s introduction to The Waste Land-listening to it rather than poring over it-was ideal. must be difficult.” He certainly was.) On the spot, Woolf identified the particular brilliance of The Waste Land: its balancing of, or oscillation between, symmetry and fracturing its impersonal form and deeply personal feeling its vibrating “tensity.” It’s easy for a reader now, schooled in the history of modernism, to sense the poem’s architecture and preoccupations. (A year before this recitation, Eliot claimed “that it appears likely that poets in our civilization. It is remarkable that Woolf could respond so intelligently to her first encounter with a poem that, one hundred years after its publication, remains synonymous with inscrutability. The Waste Land it is called & Mary Hutch, who has heard it more quietly, interprets it to be Tom’s autobiography - a melancholy one. One was left, however, with some strong emotion.
What connects it together, I’m not so sure. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry & tensity. Eliot:Įliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. In a June 1922 journal entry, Virginia Woolf described a memorable evening spent with her friend, T. Eliot After “The Waste Land” by Robert Crawford.
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