La tierra baldía

In addition to being the great poem of the 20th century, The Bad Land is an essential work for understanding our times. With groundbreaking diction and images, T.S. Eliot knows how to sing the devastation of the First World War, the adaptation of man to the city as a new and definitive exile from nature, the difficult desire between women and men, and at the same time summon the voices of the literary past of the West. But beyond the intimidating technical virtuosity and the aesthetic intensity that the poem unleashes, in these verses he above all moves the naked humanity that explodes in silence.