I’m torn because “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock“ is perhaps my favorite poem. And it is already difficult enough to understand. I find “The waste land“ to

I’m torn because “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock“ is perhaps my favorite poem. And it is already difficult enough to understand. I find “The waste land“ to be a much harder slog yet still seductively well written. FWIW his earlier Sweeney poems[1], [2] are more traditionally crafted, with rhyme and meter and everything, and I feel they are masterpieces. Much easier to approach than his latter works. [1] https://www.bartleby.com/199/24.html https://www.bartleby.com/199/24.html [2] https://www.bartleby.com/199/15.html https://www.bartleby.com/199/15.html