Forgot to write one last week (Opps)

(I forgot to write a blog last week. so I will write one this week and then another next week.)

Title : My personal View

When we started reading, The Wasteland, by TS Eliot, I was lost from the beginning. I had no clue what that poem was. But once we started discussing it more and more in class, it became more clear to me. By the end, I understood a lot more about the poem.

And, now I am on the same path again. Like The Wasteland, Spring and All is also very confusing. While there are some parts that I understood, I had a hard time comprehending the rest of the poem. Now that we are almost halfway through the poem, I do understand a lot more compared to the beginning.

The one thing that I like about this poem that I hated about The Wasteland is the fact that this poem is not as creepy and bone chilling like The Wasteland. After reading that poem, I actually started disliking spring because of how Eliot portrayed spring. I like spring just because new things come to life, and everywhere you look, you see color, and a new glow. But after reading the first line in The Wasteland, I started thinking about spring, and what he said is true. Everything that grows in spring does come from dead things (A very terrifying thought).

There were other things that I did not like about The Wasteland, but the first line was something that I would never forget. I was so glad when we were done with The Wasteland because it was ruining everything that I loved about the world.
Then we started reading Spring and All, and I liked this version of spring way better. Main reason because it did not make spring seem all gross and creepy. This poem affirmed showed the beauty and power of the world that everyone loves in contrast to Eliot's grim gloomy reflection of spring (thank you Mr. Williams, you saved spring for me.) I personally feel like Spring and All is better than The Wasteland just because it is a little bit more uplifting and less pessimistic in the way that it represents things, even though they are equally confusing and frustrating.

But even with that, I am still having problems with this poem. It is not that this poem is confusing, well it is confusing, but the part that I am having problem with is just understanding where he is coming from, and why does he write things the way he does? Well I hope this poem becomes clear to me at the end, because this poem actually seems like something that I would like if I understood everything that it is talking about.