This could be the lyric poem of this time in history! It concisely expresses so much truth in short rhyming lines. Can it get a sticky?
Reminds me of T. S. Eliot:
The Waste Land consists of five sections and proceeds on a principle of “rhetorical discontinuity.” This discontinuity reflects the fragmented experience of the 20th-century sensibility of the great modern cities of the West. Eliot expresses the hopelessness and confusion of purpose of life in the secularized city, the decay of urbs aeterna (the “eternal city”). This is the ultimate theme of The Waste Land, made concrete by the poem’s constant rhetorical shifts and its juxtapositions of contrasting styles. But The Waste Land is not a simple contrast of the heroic past with the degraded present; it is, rather, a timeless simultaneous awareness of moral grandeur and moral evil. The poem’s original manuscript of about 800 lines was cut down to 433 at the suggestion of Ezra Pound. The Waste Land is not Eliot’s greatest poem, though it is his most famous. For further discussion see The Waste Land.
This could be the lyric poem of this time in history! It concisely expresses so much truth in short rhyming lines. Can it get a sticky?
Reminds me of T. S. Eliot:
The Waste Land consists of five sections and proceeds on a principle of “rhetorical discontinuity.” This discontinuity reflects the fragmented experience of the 20th-century sensibility of the great modern cities of the West. Eliot expresses the hopelessness and confusion of purpose of life in the secularized city, the decay of urbs aeterna (the “eternal city”). This is the ultimate theme of The Waste Land, made concrete by the poem’s constant rhetorical shifts and its juxtapositions of contrasting styles. But The Waste Land is not a simple contrast of the heroic past with the degraded present; it is, rather, a timeless simultaneous awareness of moral grandeur and moral evil. The poem’s original manuscript of about 800 lines was cut down to 433 at the suggestion of Ezra Pound. The Waste Land is not Eliot’s greatest poem, though it is his most famous. For further discussion see The Waste Land.