Listen to the whole poem
T. S. Eliot was an American living in London. He worked at Lloyds Bank. In 1921, after a breakdown, he finished a long poem in five parts. It was published in 1922, four years after the end of the First World War.
The poem is made of many voices and many languages, and it quotes dozens of older books. Nobody understands all of it the first time. Listen once from beginning to end without stopping. Let the sounds and pictures reach you. You will read it slowly afterwards, part by part.
The whole reading, from the start. If YouTube does not open where you are, read the poem aloud to yourself, part by part.
Before the poem begins
Tap the words to see what they mean.
First impressions
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