Building the City Amidst Ruins

T.S. Eliot turns to rebuilding the modern city in "Choruses from The Rock"

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash

Thus far in our piecemeal examination of Eliot’s “Choruses from The Rock” (see parts one, two, three, and four), we have focused primarily on the problem of the modern city. But as I mentioned at the conclusion of last week’s post, this poem is fundamentally a poem about building, not about ruins, like The Waste Land. It…