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Date: May 18th, 2008 04:12 am (UTC) |
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Cobain and Eliot get compared all the time. Their writing styles were markedly similar in that fragmented, "heap of broken images" style with the same themes of desolation, alienation, and depression. And since Teen Spirit was Cobain's masterpiece, and "The Waste Land" Eliot's the comparison checks out. I don't know the history of Eliot's career as well as Cobain's, whether his work was as emblematic and immediately influential as Cobain's is up to you. After all, in pop music you can get away with imitating someone, in poetry, as we all know, it is better to steal.
-YearsInHotClaws
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