tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939909775405220345.post6298767711276184670..comments2024-03-01T10:16:11.283-08:00Comments on AmericanStudies: March 18, 2013: Spring in America: Williams and EliotAmericanStudierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06483077716534996778noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939909775405220345.post-86704178611065289592013-03-18T06:14:10.105-07:002013-03-18T06:14:10.105-07:00In his essay "Uncle Tom's Shantih," ...In his essay "Uncle Tom's Shantih," which can be found in the collection Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (2003), the American poet Anthony Hecht focuses on the first 18 lines of The Waste Land. Through a contextualization of those first lines, Hecht's excellent close-reading shows how important Eliot's allusions are to an introduction and set up of the themes of exploitation, sexual and otherwise, that play out in many other parts of the poem before those repeated words of hope that are uttered in the poem's final line.<br />Jeff RñAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com