Crazy to see no comments on this great classic. Even the lyrics alone, such a great poem.

I told my dad that the bit about Eliot's isolation and Pound's appreciation of the demotic was th e continuation of the metaphysicals into the twentieth century. He said 'bunk' or something. I just got past the cee u sweet swisters but I'm still expecting postcards from my place of birth, Dundee. https://news.sky.com/video/drug-deaths-dundee-europes-drug-death-capital-12943949

212. DEMOTIC means common, of the people. Demotic and demobbed (line 139) were the only specific words Ezra Pound had suggested to improve the poem, but he also offered general encouragement and suggested broad edits.  See note 0.4 and see F&T*). https://annotatedwasteland.blogspot.com/2013/03/37-from-lunch-to-weekend-demotic.html

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