You just haven't read the right Eliot. ;) Bits of Eliot are an acquired taste (okay, lots of Eliot is an acquired taste ^-^), but there are bits that are just gorgeous. And he isn't really depressing; Ash-Wednesday and the Four Quartets are hope-from-the-ashes sorts of poems (and, okay, he got a lot more hopeful after he converted to Christianity), and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is hilarious and the worldplay is all kinds of fun. And even some of the weirder poems have very profound and not-incomprehensible moments. "Do I dare disturb the universe?" is brilliant, and the end of "Prufrock" gives me chills. (Schools always make you start with the most incomprehensible Eliot, though. "The Waste Land" is so full of stuff that even Eliot wrote footnotes to explain all of the references -- mostly mythology and history.) *shuts up* Okay, babble to me about your favourite poet now so I feel better. :p
I'm not sure Angel would be much of a Frost sort of bloke, though -- I've nothing against Frost, but mostly he writes about nature and things, and I don't see Angel being able to relate much to that. ;) I can see him digging Dylan Thomas, though. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." And some of the Romantics, only most of the Romantics have too high of an opinion of themselves. :p (The Romantics are around Angel's original time period, too. Hmm.) Yeah, so, you know how most people take personality quizzes and suchlike? I match people to poets. Hee.
Wesley really ought to get himself some tweed. Honestly, tweed is the Watcher uniform. How is anyone supposed to tell he's not a civilian? ;) (YOU FIRE MY GILES AND I WILL FIRE YOUUU. WITH...FIRE. YEAH.)
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Date: 2008-02-10 03:07 am (UTC)I'm not sure Angel would be much of a Frost sort of bloke, though -- I've nothing against Frost, but mostly he writes about nature and things, and I don't see Angel being able to relate much to that. ;) I can see him digging Dylan Thomas, though. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." And some of the Romantics, only most of the Romantics have too high of an opinion of themselves. :p (The Romantics are around Angel's original time period, too. Hmm.) Yeah, so, you know how most people take personality quizzes and suchlike? I match people to poets. Hee.
Wesley really ought to get himself some tweed. Honestly, tweed is the Watcher uniform. How is anyone supposed to tell he's not a civilian? ;) (YOU FIRE MY GILES AND I WILL FIRE YOUUU. WITH...FIRE. YEAH.)