break the chain

well it's a new semester, and a new season for blogging. I, like many of you, am excited to start posting again...

First I would just like to get a few things off my chest. I feel like as a class we have started out slow. I think we could all do a better job of opening up to Yeats and the upcoming wasteland. I know for me it was hard to get an idea of what the poem consisted of and felt somewhat limited to what I could take from class on tuesday. While for most of the class I felt as if we were going in circles, I do think towards the end of class we touched on a few main points. The idea of change, which is for the worst in Yeats' eyes, is apparent in that the normalcy of history has began to unravel. We can see from the transition of the poem that it is fluxuating to a point of instability. Hopefully, by not having a pretense of a certain background other than the one of Yeats, we can understand this poem that was written in a rather difficult time..

p.s I commented on anna rhodes post