And my eyes failed

from T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land on Rap Genius

Because love is blind…or maybe because love debilitates. You can also read this as a wider comment on the impossibility of human connection, rather than specifically as a reference to love.

The image foreshadows Tiresias’s blindness, to be discussed in detail later in the poem.

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