Thursday, April 7, 2011

Why Is April Is The Cruellest Month?



"April is the cruellest month, breeding


Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."


Link below is to the wikipedia page on The Waste Land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_waste_land

The link below is to the full poem The Waste Land.
http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
 
And the link below is an attempt to answer why April Is The Cruelest Month.
http://everything2.com/title/April+is+the+cruellest+month

And more in the link below on other poets and April.
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/04/front.140400.april.jhtml