…in concert. Speech is a kind of multi-layered concert, a symphony of the senses, where our heart and country senses assist one another. Eliot reminds us of this when he says that a word can be a poem. Now, writing not a translation of this many-layered…

…McLuhan, who's, as you know, a student of literature, and particularly very involved with modern literature, with Pound, Joyce... Eliot undoubtedly absorbed this idea that the medium is the message from the so-called formalist tradition. Yes, Eliot, for…

…literature, with Pound, Joyce... Eliot undoubtedly absorbed this idea that the medium is the message from the so-called formalist tradition. Yes, Eliot, for example, says that the poet takes the meaning into the poem like the burglar brings along a piece of…

…meat to give to the dog so that the intellect has something to chew on while the emotions, meanwhile... McLuhan said that. Well, Eliot, I think, originally... I don't think that Elliot would have used such a homely image This is much more like a comic…

…word on speech in Eliot's Wasteland and the clue or cue comes from his use of the name Mrs. Equitone But I heard, when Eliot reads it, when he's recording the poem, and by the way, there's an area of study, the effects of the poet's recordings in our…

…poetry has had? Oh, well, it has involved readers in the whole poetic process as never before. Oh heavens, when you actually hear Eliot or Joyce or Dylan Thomas reading that stuff, why, it makes you feel that it's a normal part of human speech and…

…on speech in Eliot's wasteland. And it's the clue or cue comes from his use of the name Mrs. Equitone. But I heard when Eliot reads it, when he's recording the poem, and by the way, there's an aerial study. The effects of the poet's recordings in our…

…poetry has had? Oh, well, it has involved readers in the whole poetic process as never before. Oh, heavens. When you actually hear Eliot or Joyce or Dylan Thomas reading that stuff, why, it makes you feel that it's a normal part of human speech and…