Saturday's visit to Turner Contemporary means I am still a bit focused on The Waste Land, this is mostly
due to trying to read it again, failing to understand it again and trying to
form a mental picture of Eliot in Margate just after WW1, just after the scenic
railway opened.
Perhaps if I quote Eliot talking about art it will help you
understand my confusion a bit.
“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by
finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects,
a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular
emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory
experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”
See what I mean? Sounds deep and meaningless to me, anyone know what it means?
The pictures are Ramsgate 1934
I suppose the time between the world wars fascinates
me for all sorts of reasons particularly the rapid social and artistic changes
that I think were the result of WW1.
Here are some Margate photos from 1934
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