The Eyes Of Dr Tj Eckleburg Comments

Enigmatic to the point of being decidedly obscure, but with images that are quite suggestive, powerfully poetic. Reminds me of Dylan Thomas' poetry, which has always fascinated me. Will have to check more of this poet's work, definetely. For the benefit of other readers, the title refers to The Great Gatsby: The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland, though the novel never makes this point explicitly.