words
by um
Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-03-16 06:28:00
Parent message is 404317
i don’t think words can be an exact(precise) mapping of reality
for one thing if they were everyone would read them differently
i think eliot got frustrated with philosophy and thought language was a poor medium for it. so he went on to do philosophy as literary critism. He was an expert philosopher but became very cynical and even questioned our questioning.