Tuesday: Read T. S. Eliot:
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and
"Journey of the Magi" Also watch the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Steamboat Willie". The cartoon is available here:
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Friday:
Read T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land. You
don't have to read Eliot's footnotes (but you can if you want). Do not
worry about making sense of all of it. Think of the poem at first as a
collection of pieces or fragments, and consider them separately. The
title makes a statement of what the poem is about: a vision of the world as
wasted, destroyed, dead, garbage. Look for a few parts of the poem--a
stanza, a scene, even just one line--that you can see as presenting a vision of
the world or part of the world as wasted. Mark those sections so we can
talk about them in class. Also, see if you find some other parts of the
poem interesting--perhaps an image or the rhythm of a section. Does any
small moment or image seem an image of something that isn't broken or
wasted--even beautiful? Mark those parts as well. And finally, mark a section (a stanza, a line, even just a word) that makes no sense, or that seems particularly unreadable.
