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*The popular English folk-punk singer '''Frank Turner''' in an interview found in the "Perspectives" section of ''The Waste Land'' App spoke on Eliot's influence on his song writing: " I wasn't a poetry lover until I met Eliot... I hadn't grasped how devastating poetry could be until I came across Eliot... Reading Eliot gave me a kind of sense of ambition in what one could achieve through words." | *The popular English folk-punk singer '''Frank Turner''' in an interview found in the "Perspectives" section of ''The Waste Land'' App spoke on Eliot's influence on his song writing: " I wasn't a poetry lover until I met Eliot... I hadn't grasped how devastating poetry could be until I came across Eliot... Reading Eliot gave me a kind of sense of ambition in what one could achieve through words." | ||
| − | Frank Turner has three songs directly influenced by Eliot's poetry | + | Frank Turner has three songs directly influenced by Eliot's poetry: |
| − | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ahJwZGLbU The Fisher King Blues] - T.S. Eliot incorporated elements of the Arthurian legend of The Fisher King into ''The Waste Land'' | + | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ahJwZGLbU The Fisher King Blues] - T.S. Eliot incorporated elements of the Arthurian legend of The Fisher King into ''The Waste Land.'' |
| − | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRuE1bk1Lus Journey of the Magi] - Turner based this song off of Eliot's poem of the same name "Journey of the Magi." | + | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRuE1bk1Lus Journey of the Magi] - Turner based this song off of Eliot's poem of the same name "Journey of the Magi." |
| + | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eM2R1aCKQ I Knew Prufrock Before He got Famous] - This song is a reference to Eliot's second most famous poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." | ||
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