- Jun 2020
-
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
-
Plosz J. (2020, June 22). How the Coronavirus Recovery Is Changing Cities. Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-city-in-recovery/
-
- Oct 2016
-
teaching.lfhanley.net teaching.lfhanley.net
-
There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses If there were water
This continues to remind me of the film Taxi Driver, where De Niro's characters calls for the rain to waste away and cleanse the city of its all it's vices and sins. He drives late into the night, disgusted with his environment and fueled with anger and rage. Moreover, the mountains which is the anthesis of the city is also affected by the absence of rain.
-
I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
This is about modernity and how we inherit this world where the past remains and death residents in the slums of the streets. It's the grit and the grime, it's the hustle and bustle, it's the city life at its rawest form.
-
when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
A taxi is a symbol of modernity, where one can get from point a to point b to point z and back. Eliot descibes this restlessness people feel when they are anxious and dying for some form of action or stimulus.
-