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.

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