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[[Image: The Waste Land Cover 9.jpg]] This is the cover of The Waste Land as an audiobook, published by thoughtaudio.com. | [[Image: The Waste Land Cover 9.jpg]] This is the cover of The Waste Land as an audiobook, published by thoughtaudio.com. | ||
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| + | Each of these covers is pretty different, but some of them have a common theme; a barren landscape. Even though the poem is titled ''The Waste Land'', is this an appropriate rendering of the poem? Certainly everyone will have their opinion on this, and I don't think there'd necessarily a right or wrong answer, but I don't think a picture of deserted wilderness is exactly relevant to this poem. In my reading, I found ''The Waste Land'' to be about people and their interactions with each other. I don't think these landscapes reflect that part of the poem. It has been suggested that Eliot is making a point to say that we need to be generous again and find our empathy again. These covers do not reflect that part of the poem. They do, however, accurately reflect the aftermath of a war-torn land. War brings devastation and ravages the land, leaving it scorched, but as the poem says, the land will breed lilacs again, even after the terrible fighting. These covers depict the first part of that cycle, but not the rebirth and struggle afterwards. | ||
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| + | Over time, we see a pretty general trend; the more modern these works get, they seem to get more minimalistic, which I think is just an aesthetic trend. Right now, modern, minimalism is 'in,' but in a few years, that might be old news and we'll be seeing elaborate, thoughtful covers. | ||
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