“The Hollow Men” at 100(prufrock.substack.com) |
“The Hollow Men” at 100(prufrock.substack.com) |
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Bath_riots
This has come up a couple times before on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552760
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381708
Eliot chose, in 1948, when the Holocaust was common knowledge, to reprint a poem that contains the line:
>On the Rialto once./The rats are underneath the piles. The jew is underneath the lot.
That isn’t a poet following a common zeitgeist, that is a deliberate, provocative act.