Thomas Stearns Eliot's Genuine Poetry

Throughout the ages, specifically in the modern period, poetry has deteriotated in revelance and meaning, what was once a way of expressing ones philosophical way is now just another topic in English. Learning how to express poetry at school is one thing, but understanding poetry is another ‘In order to understand what is not, it takes time an dpatience, but first, the origin of what is not understood must be understood.’ – Anonymous; considered as the model poet of modern poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot left this world with a vast range of poetry and quotes, one such quote being; ‘Genuine Poetry can communicate before it is understood’. As once a teacher, Eliot came to the realization that the modern era lacks the appreciation and understanding for poetry hence where the quote stems from.

In this stanza, he alludes to the famous London Bridge and to that of Joseph Conrad’s 1987 story Karain: a memory. A story very much related to this stanza, about the European arms smugglers to Karain, a warlord in Southern Philippines who tells the Europeans a ghost story where the story ends with the Europeans in the busy street of London contemplating about the ghost story told by the warlord, Yes; I see it’. (Literary Genius, 2013) With no regular rhyme scheme, in all short narrative sections of The Waste Land, it is very much like that of free verse. Mentioned before, with the motion of individualism and opposing the social norms of poetry free verse writing was becoming relatively popular and hence why Eliot’s The Waste Land written during the modern era defied the common logic of poetry and became such a profound work of