I'm a retired teacher and academic with a Ph.D (the novels of Dickens). Insurmountable Eliot has always eluded me. Now in retirement at 66 years, thanks to Professor Strandberg, I am beginning to see the Eliotic light. People say I'm mad, pursuing an incomprehensible, rambling, poet. I reply, "He giveth me a new lease of life". From the Wasteland to the Four Quarters I will go ... one is the progenitor of the other. Both are organic, both give life.
Through years and years of plodding and excavating wearily through the "Wasteland", I encountered mazes upon mazes of confusion until I chanced to meet this brilliant teacher who opened new doors unto me like no other had come near to doing. A long line of others, "experts, specialists" and the like failed. I salute this true pedagogue. I build him a monument.
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"By the waters of Leman, I sat down and wept." There is another meaning here. The Austrian Empress Elizabeth was murdered by the shores of Lac Leman, by a Swiss anarchist. This follows up earlier references to the tragic Austrian royal family in the poem's opening "Marie, Marie, hold on tight, and down we went." A series of tragedies in the Austrian royal house eventually led to the Great War, which turned Europe into a spiritual and physical "Wasteland" in four year's time.
The classical elements air earth water and fire make more sense to the contemporary mind if we see these as states of matter: gas, solid, liquid and the transfer of matter (fire), fire resulting in pure carbon, water and carbon monoxide
I'm a retired teacher and academic with a Ph.D (the novels of Dickens). Insurmountable Eliot has always eluded me. Now in retirement at 66 years, thanks to Professor Strandberg, I am beginning to see the Eliotic light. People say I'm mad, pursuing an incomprehensible, rambling, poet. I reply, "He giveth me a new lease of life".
From the Wasteland to the Four Quarters I will go ... one is the progenitor of the other. Both are organic, both give life.
Through years and years of plodding and excavating wearily through the "Wasteland", I encountered mazes upon mazes of confusion until I chanced to meet this brilliant teacher who opened new doors unto me like no other had come near to doing. A long line of others, "experts, specialists" and the like failed.
I salute this true pedagogue. I build him a monument.
I, now 67 years old have stumbled upon your lecture. You have opened up a new world to me. Awakening me from my slumbler.
Magnificent! Really impressed 👏
You're doing a Really great job considering
the he'll of splintered cryptic text THE WASTE LAND is!!!!!!!
May God bless you 🙏 ❤
I endorse your sentiments with heart and soul. Have not come across another to emulate Guru Strandberg.
Most erudite and eloquent lectures I have ever heard. Thank you so much. It is indeed a pleasure and honor to listen to these lectures.
Thank you ever so much !
I could listen to this man all day long. I start these and don't want to stop...one to the next.
We are kindred folk.
Thank you for your help. I am reading Eliot for the first time.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge Professor. I greatly appreciate these.
"By the waters of Leman, I sat down and wept." There is another meaning here. The Austrian Empress Elizabeth was murdered by the shores of Lac Leman, by a Swiss anarchist. This follows up earlier references to the tragic Austrian royal family in the poem's opening "Marie, Marie, hold on tight, and down we went." A series of tragedies in the Austrian royal house eventually led to the Great War, which turned Europe into a spiritual and physical "Wasteland" in four year's time.
Thank you. Ever willing to embrace alternative shades of meaning.
The classical elements air earth water and fire make more sense to the contemporary mind if we see these as states of matter: gas, solid, liquid and the transfer of matter (fire), fire resulting in pure carbon, water and carbon monoxide
Brilliant.
Augustine's son was born before the saint's conversion.
Augustine was bishop of Hippo, not Carthage.
Feel like my version differs at points? No wrinkles female breasts or dugs?
"Sexual conjunction"... from now on, I will only use this term for sex. If I can ever stop giggling.
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