T.S. Eliot, A Genius

T.S. Eliot was an extremely talented individual. His works, though at times difficult to follow, are truly unique. Eliot could easily be named the greatest poet of his time. Personally, I admire him most for his rebellion against the norm. Eliot broke away from traditional form, rhyme, and even meter. He rejected a lot of 19th Century poetry, like the works of Wordsworth and Tennyson. T.S. Eliot believed that poetry should be an intellectual pursuit, not a romantic or emotional one. I completely agreed with his idea that poetry should be challenging. One poem in particular, The Waste Land, is still extremely challenging to even some scholars. I'm interested in our class discussions on that poem most of all.