Before we got to class the only thing that stuck out to me about Wasteland was how unique and weird the whole poem was. Not often do you run into multiple different languages scattered throughout a poem, and it seemed as though Elliot had done this only to make things more difficult on the reader. What Mitchell discussed intrigued me though, that the only way the writers of the Modern era could get through to their readers was to distort the language so much that we would be forced to slow down and look for some kind of meaning in the chaos. This thought sparked a long mental tangent in class that ranged from considering deeper meanings for "Fear death by water." to trying to follow the poem as multiple different happenings recorded together to create a connection between them. I found that where I could not find more meaning in a line I could at least find a different meaning that often made less sense but could lead me in a new direction that perhaps was the only meaning the author had truly intended for the reader.

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