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Nov. 23rd, 2002 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishShape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion.
I love Eliot's work. I do. I just hate this part of writing a paper-- when I've pretty much got the 'outline' done, and there's nothing for it but to dive in and start banging out sentences, and occasionally trying to work in a reference to another bit of criticism so I can meet the Six Outside Sources requirement.
I don't mind building the outline-- that doesn't require that I string ideas together coherently. I don't mind piecing together the bits after I've written them. If I ever had time, I wouldn't mind giving the whole thing a once-over to make sure it hangs together properly. It's the actual creation itself that bogs me down.
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once as handsome as you.
I dunno. The Waste Land and The Hollow Men are brilliant, and of course "Prufrock" and "Gerontion" are good, but Ash-Wednesday and the Quartets are too formal and stilted for my taste. Give me Yeats any day.
Paralysed force, gesture without motion.
I love Eliot's work. I do. I just hate this part of writing a paper-- when I've pretty much got the 'outline' done, and there's nothing for it but to dive in and start banging out sentences, and occasionally trying to work in a reference to another bit of criticism so I can meet the Six Outside Sources requirement.
I don't mind building the outline-- that doesn't require that I string ideas together coherently. I don't mind piecing together the bits after I've written them. If I ever had time, I wouldn't mind giving the whole thing a once-over to make sure it hangs together properly. It's the actual creation itself that bogs me down.
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once as handsome as you.
I dunno. The Waste Land and The Hollow Men are brilliant, and of course "Prufrock" and "Gerontion" are good, but Ash-Wednesday and the Quartets are too formal and stilted for my taste. Give me Yeats any day.