From "Terrible" to "Unreal"
In the original draft, this line reads,
"Terrible City, I have sometimes seen and see
Under the brown fog of your winter dawn...'(V. Eliot 9)
These lines were changed by Ezra Pound, so that the speaker is no longer addressing the city as a person, but speaking to a person of the city.
in its modern version, the text is less heavy-handed because of this change, and seems to flow in a less linear pattern, thus giving Eliot's verse a translucency that underlines the feeling of unreality.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting
"Terrible City, I have sometimes seen and see
Under the brown fog of your winter dawn...'(V. Eliot 9)
These lines were changed by Ezra Pound, so that the speaker is no longer addressing the city as a person, but speaking to a person of the city.
in its modern version, the text is less heavy-handed because of this change, and seems to flow in a less linear pattern, thus giving Eliot's verse a translucency that underlines the feeling of unreality.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting