I am currently studying English Literature, and I’ve come to the pièce de résistance: T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” I’ve read it twice now, and, as you can probably guess, I haven’t really gotten anything out of it, yet. I know there’s no fixed meaning to it, but I’d like to at least be able to really bathe in its complexity. Of course, I know I should just read it attentively multiple times, but do you have any other suggestions? I am reading the annotated version, which provides handy references to all the quotes Eliot is inserting. Do you have helpful material? Maybe academic papers that work as guides? A specific clue or key that helped you journey through one of the most complicated poems of the English canon?
by palsdrama