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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 502: The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot. What the hell is going on?
Description: With special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review a Mexican lager, then dive into one of the most obscure and incomprehensible poems on the planet. Eliotβs The Waste Land is one of the most important -- and most confusing -- poems of the 20th century. The poem includes fragmented voices, obscure references, and a bleak vision of modern life. What exactly was Eliot trying to say, and why has this chaotic mess of a poem endured for over a hundred years?In this episode, we dig into the madness:Why the po...