>Hey anon, what're you reading?
>"The Waste Land, by T.S Eliot."
>Hm, what's it about?
What the fuck do I say here, /lit/? Short of going into a thirty minute long lecture about the intricacy's of The Waste Land's structure, how would one go about responding to this?
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"You wouldn't understand, mom."
It's a super long fucking poem about a phone book.
Who cares lad, do your own homework.
"Its a really good poem"
Why do people insist on complicating things
Baudelaire's Paris only with London and modernism.
T.S. SMELLiot was a sharp poet who unfortunately believed like many green writers that allusions to religion, particularly cruddy ones, will give a poem merit. I hated this crap.
>>7727410
The entire first part was good but the rest was a slow trek in to meh
>>7727226
"Read it and find out, faggot"
>implying you could go two sentences about the structure about waste land and aren't just a dumb pleb trying to impress other dumb plebs with pleb shit
"It's about tarot cards :^)"
It's vital that you verbalize ":^)"
>>7727226
it's a long poem that references a lot of other works
it's the scary movie of poems
>i don't know
say that
>>7727521
the smart man reserves his judgement and you are now smartie, so ill thell you just what to say rather than imply your will is to subject your 999 will to
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