The Waste Land
What did T.S.Eliot mean by ‘April is the cruellest month?’ Is it that March brings the first sunny sense of relief that winter is over, but then April comes with grim freezing days of slanting rain in your deceived face?
It used to make me laugh, speaking Spanish, that their word for ‘disappointed’ is ‘desilusionado’ — disillusioned — you put your arms around someone with a broken heart and say, consolingly, ‘you had a lot of illusion, eh?’