T.S.Elliot: April is the cruelest month

El poema de Elliot comienza con "April is the cruelest month", siempre tuve la duda de por qué abril y no, quizás, los meses de invierno.
Pues aqui hay una interestante discusión. Casi todo lo que menciona es después de Elliot, pero vale la pena leer este artículito del Huffington Post.

Cito un cacho.


"Maybe we should shut the country down for one week in April each year. From the 15-22nd, perhaps, or the 16th-23rd. This month marks the saddest days in American history. Yes, I know, April bore the beginning of the American Revolution, but it also holds the anniversaries of the Waco siege (April 19th), the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19th), Columbine (April 20th), and the massacre at Virginia Tech (April 16th)".

La otra versión es porque el 15 de abril es el último día para pagar impuestos.

Cito a Poets.org:

"April is the cruellest month . . ." begins the first line of The Waste Land, the signature modernist poem by T.S. Eliot. The 15th of April could easily be named the cruelest day of April, as it is the annual deadline for Americans to mail their tax returns, and checks, to the Internal Revenue Service. To mark National Poetry Month on past tax days, the Academy of American Poets and the American Poetry & Literacy Project distributed thousands of free copies of The Waste Land at selected post offices across the country to taxpayers rushing to make the deadline."


Y les pongo aqui el poema para los que no lo han leído o para los que lo quieren releer. Mi favorito de los poetas americanos. Lean también "The Love Song of J.ALfred Prufrock"