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Of course he was feeling subconsciously what he was placing into words that could be read and assimilated by different folk and deciphered into their own subconscious. No one ever wants to imagine the whole truth in its naked state of being. Just thoughts Naut. I used to be amazed by stuff like this. The big drums now bang in most thoughts.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 1, 2015 at 10:44 PM
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Important things are not easy – they’re sometimes very, very difficult…. I totally agree.
posted by
Kabu
on April 1, 2015 at 6:43 PM
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Nautikos
Kind of like Nostradamus isn't he??
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 1, 2015 at 5:34 PM
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Great post--I so enjoyed it. And here I am embarrassed to be writing about Kewpie dolls.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 1, 2015 at 4:53 PM
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So it was bad even then, huh? Maybe not from the same quarters...but still not good. Humans! No wonder I love dogs.
posted by
adnohr
on April 1, 2015 at 4:51 PM
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Seems apt, moreso now perhaps than when he wrote it.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 1, 2015 at 3:32 PM
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What an incredible scene that is. It may be closer than we realize.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM
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Nautikos
Such an important poem and great to read from time-to-time. For me it has been awhile so thank you for doing this.
Somewhere in my basement is a thick notebook filled with notes on T.S. Eliot so, of course, many of them concern The Waste Land. I think my regular references to water probably spring from the instant connection I had to the Death by Water verse...I just looked it up and it still speaks to me as strongly, and as clearly. I needed to refresh myself after reading the haunting verse you chose which, I agree, we can well use for reflecting on the current world situation.
It is my pragmatic view shared in the water verse which keeps me from slipping into the dark depths one can contemplating this looming actual 'waste land'.....not to mention the cultural one we already face.
While I was looking for my water verse, I looked through the notes to see what he said about your chosen verse. I always found the notes he gave almost as interesting as the poem itself....and I copied for you...although you probably just read it when you posted this..in case you didn't, and since I was there.....
Hermann Hesse, Blick ins Chaos: “Schon ist halb Europa, schon ist zumindest der halbe Osten Europas auf dem Wege zum Chaos, fährt betrunken im heiligem Wahn am Abgrund entlang und singt dazu, singt betrunken und hymnisch wie Dmitri Karamasoff sang. Ueber diese Lieder lacht der Bürger beleidigt, der Heilige und Seher hört sie mit Tränen.”
posted by
Krisles
on April 1, 2015 at 2:16 PM
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I think this is one of the reasons I'm not really a poetry fan . . . Be that as it may, I believe there may have been other 'prophetic' pieces written by others that spelled a futuristic doom and gloom for us all. Sorry, they just don't resonate the same with me as they might with others . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on April 1, 2015 at 1:13 PM
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