Why Is It Called The Waste Land? | The Myth Behind the Title

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  @closereadingpoetry · 1 year ago · pinned

  If you&apos;d like to join the beginner-friendly course &quot;The Waste Land in Slow Motion&quot; beginning April 21, sign up ($15) by joining Versed at: <a href="https://versedcommunity.mn.co/">https://versedcommunity.mn.co/ </a><br><br>Check out the course syllabus here! <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EvvTAtvoTSUvb2jX8wjXgY8eQlzhBm98j8FaCb1ndko/edit?tab=t.0">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EvvTAtvoTSUvb2jX8wjXgY8eQlzhBm98j8FaCb1ndko/edit?tab=t.0</a>

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• AS

  @aspirindd3663 · 1 year ago

  I will just write something in an effort to promote this project, as I find it truly unique and important among other stuff we find in this platform. I actually find it quite inspiring to find such a gem of a content. Thank you, author

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  @GarryCraigPowell · 9 months ago

  Excellent. I studied The Waste Land over fifty years ago, and thought I knew it well, but you have opened new avenues in my thoughts on the poem, and I shall return to it at once. Thank you.

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  @ThomasSimmons-u5x · 1 year ago

  Perhaps ironically, it was Copola&apos;s APOCALYPSE NOW that kicked off a lifelong interest in mythology and symbolism. &nbsp;In Brando&apos;s scenes at the end of the film, I noticed the camera at one point focusing on what Kurtz is reading. &nbsp;It turned out to be the Golden Bough and Weston&apos;s From Ritual to Romanace, among others. &nbsp;If you consider the last scene of Kurtz&apos;s ritual slaughter by capt. Willard, the point is driven home.<br>There is also the crazed Dennis Hopper qouting Eliot from Prufrock: &quot;I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling along the floors of silent seas.&quot; <br><br>Cut to the chase, it sparked me to read Frazier and Weston and eventually fell in love with TS Eliot, who remains a constant companion.<br><br>Ah, the once King HOLLYWOOD, now wounded and dying if not Dead. &nbsp;Is it we who have killed him?

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• DI

  @diogenesagogo · 10 months ago

  Bridge keeper: &quot;What is your favourite colour?&quot; Sir Galahad: &quot;Blue - no yell AAAAHHHRRRRGGGHHH .....&quot; &nbsp; humble apologies.

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  @paavoviuhko7250 · 1 month ago

  Always much to learn in these videos. They seem essential to me. I&apos;m attracted to the idea of mythological continuity in the present. Can&apos;t speak of it as something overthrown by modern sensibilities. I am in need of more of this literary excellence so well delivered.

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  @asharajwade8745 · 1 year ago

  The spoken word matters so much. Oh, just for the sound of your thoughts! A brilliant and erudite talk. I enjoyed it fr the heart. Thank you!

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• NE

  @negativelycapable · 1 year ago (edited)

  Thank you very much, Dr Adam Walker. Glad to find your channel today.

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• EN

  @EnolinNel · 1 year ago

  Your videos are always incredible. Thank you for making your knowledge available

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• AH

  @ahabgaddis7277 · 1 year ago

  Golden Bough had a big influence on William Gaddis&apos; The Recognitions as well to add another

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• AN

  @angelablanco6671 · 1 year ago

  Thank you so much for these videos on The Waste Land 💌

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  @telefraser · 1 year ago

  I ordered From Ritual to Romance before i saw this, now The Golden Bough is also on the way. Thank you Adam, as always.

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