Last year, my Well Read Mom's book club group universally hated this poem. I am just trying to understand its appeal. When I first studied poetry writing as an undergraduate, the professor told us that Pound told Eliot to lard (my word) his poetry with quotes from other languages and other references people wouldn't understand. What does such obfuscation achieve except confusion and resentment, except among cognoscenti who are willing to take the trouble to try to decode the poem so they won't be considered unintelligent?