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Poetry of T. S. Eliot collects all of his early work through âThe Hollow Men.â Poems like âThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,â âWhispers of Immortality,â and âGerontionâ ponder aging and mortality, while âSweeney Erect,â âMr. Eliotâs Sunday Service,â and âSweeney Among the Nightingalesâ sketch the temptations and agonies of the modern man in the character of Sweeney.
Woven throughout with allusions to works in six foreign languages and sporting over fifty footnotes by the author, âThe Waste Landâ is as notorious for its bleak picture of a postwar world as it is for its density and difficulty. âThe Hollow Menâ ends with one of the most famous stanzas in English poetry.
Eliotâs flashes of insight bring the everyday into stark relief. Whether suffering an insufferable bore, observing the lives of strangers on the streets, or juxtaposing the sacred and the profane, his sometimes autobiographical vignettes of modern life still feel current a century after they were penned.