Saturday, May 5, 2012

Revelations About Young Barack Obama From His Ex-Girlfriends...Number 3

 Using Poetry To Woo Women

3. Using Poetry To Woo Women
Obama In A Letter To McNear:

"I haven’t read 'The Waste Land' for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements — Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality."