Your Sentence

You think about starting a poem about Lahore, modelled after T. S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland': 'April is the month of abandoned plastic bags flying in the streets.' No. Not a good idea."

- its a great idea. I'll write one about Toronto. "April ghastly wound weakens all resolve, winter continues". No not a good idea.
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Neembu, I am sorry you do try to ignore me, but I am so excited -- you mean you've READ WASTELAND????? really??? I spent nights shivering one time, by single lines of Eliot I have died, this reference was the very thing I needed...like a glow in the dark...because he is suggesting, that though there is nothing to go on for, you can STILL pick up a pen and write god damn it...even in the vast echo of NOTHING..you can strike a white chord, make it shine like lightning...and he is invoking the brotherhood of writers, (at least to me) -- and I felt, he was alive, and since he 'even thought of ' writing a poem like that for Lahore...and look at the line that follows, the one about the garbage bags, I must quote that right after this message, because man, it was good.

Neembu, perhaps its a writers thing. Its okay, I don't know much about lemons!!

READER NO. 2. -- Meiraj.
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writer,

i am well aware of the eliot text. i am questioning the usage of this reference and it's purpose in your piece. it seems a bit pretentious and overwrought the way it is dropped in there, a bit signifying. rather than dropping names, invoke ideas or lines.

hope this helps.

I mean 'your desire'
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neembu, perhaps to suggest we are not far from "Wasteland" -- reading the poem may help.

Actually, I felt that TS. Eliot reference in some way stopped the sinking sensation of death...that moment -- is what writing is all about. Take reality into your own hands, and then mold it to you desire. Empowering.
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what was the purpose of that ts eliot reference?