Name of Poem?
What was the name of the poem that Tom and Tiv alternated reading in front of Viv's mother and father.
I like my tea on ice!
What was the name of the poem that Tom and Tiv alternated reading in front of Viv's mother and father.
I like my tea on ice!
Very basically, it deals with the feelings of bleakness and hopelessness generated by the terrible destructiveness of WWI.
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The working title of "The Waste Land" was "He do the police in different voices," which comes from the Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend. Viv says the title twice during that scene.
You can listen to Eliot reading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpFBSO65P4
Full text of the poem, with annotations: http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
Discussion of the various voices in the poem (hence the working title): http://hedothepolice.org/
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