The waste land by ts eliot5/24/2023 ![]() The Pet Shop Boys’ song ‘West End Girls’ was partly inspired by The Waste Land. (It also includes the passages involving Fresca on the lavatory and the other excised early drafts.) The earliest known use of the word ‘moan’ to mean ‘grumble or complain’ is found in Eliot’s original drafts of The Waste Land.Ĥ. This volume revealed the evolution of the poem and Pound’s role in helping to knock it into shape. Much of this only came to light in 1971, when Eliot’s widow, Valerie, edited and published The Waste Land Facsimile. The early drafts of The Waste Land were subjected to the brutal but brilliant red pen of Eliot’s friend and fellow modernist poet, Ezra Pound, who cut the original draft of nearly 1,000 lines down to the 434 lines that make up the final version of the poem. Indeed, much of the eventual poem as it is now known and read was a result of Ezra Pound’s editing of the drafts. ![]() ![]() A whole early passage, which begins ‘First we had a couple of feelers down at Tom’s place’, describes a drunken conversation, while a passage describing a woman, Fresca, going to the toilet, also never made the final edit.ģ. It ranks as one of the most famous opening lines in all of English poetry, but Eliot’s original drafts had a very different beginning. Similarly, the original opening line of The Waste Land was not ‘April is the cruellest month’. ![]()
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