In any case, the psalm thanks God for bothering to pay attention to us. It’s a winning poem because it’s humble without being self-loathing.

One of the most famous poems ever written and arguably the most significant 20th-century work of poetry, “The Wasteland” is T.S. Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece.

Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. I confess that I like the poem. I say “confess” because it’s supposed to be embarrassing that I do.

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Having published previous poems, Angermayer sent “Conversion” to Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic publication based in Indiana. Women’s editor Mary E. McGill published the poem on July 18, 1943.