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Gain an better understanding and appreciation for the works of T.S. Eliot, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.
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Nov 17, 2014 · In this quartet of short Eliot poems there seems to be little escape from the everyday urban life of drudgery: you get up, you go to work, you come home, you sleep (or try to), you do it all again the next day.
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room. And twists one in her fingers while she talks. 'Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know. What life is, you who hold it in your hands'; (Slowly twisting the lilac stalks) 'You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse.
Feb 4, 2021 · 7. ‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons’. A famous T. S. Eliot line found adorning many a novelty coffee mug, this line comes from Eliot’s 1915 poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (which he’d actually written in 1910 while still in his early twenties).
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Oct 27, 2014 · Eliot asks the reader to embrace a stoic view of human reality. This means that we must accept the loss of much that is dear to us in order to attain divine transcendence. Life, the poet reminds us, cannot evade the truth of Adam’s curse—“And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse.”
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