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- ‘ Whispers of Immortality ‘ describes the connection between life, death, love, and sex and how ultimately, death becomes the most important thing in life. The poem begins with the speaker describing how John Webster, a dramatist, thought about life and death. He, as well as other writers such as John Donne, saw the truth of death beneath life.
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'Whispers of Immortality' deeply engages with mortality to present its idea of transcendental immortality. The poem establishes mortality as the ultimate truth by emphasizing the inevitability of death and the brevity of human life.
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Aug 8, 2017 · One of the most popular of the quatrain poems published in T. S. Eliot’s second volume of poetry, ‘Whispers of Immortality’ (1920) is actually more about mortality than immortality. The title immediately evokes William Wordsworth’s ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ – but Eliot’s worldview is altogether more classical than ...
Webster was much possessed by death. And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground. Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls. Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs. Tightening its lusts and luxuries.
"Whispers of Immortality" is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Written sometime between 1915 and 1918, the poem was published originally in the September issue of the Little Review and first collected in June 1919 in a volume entitled Poems published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press.
Summary: Webster and Donne knew thought embraces physical death while intensifying its lusts. Both knew that no fleshly contact could allay the fever of the bone; it burned for something beyond the flesh.
Track 22 on T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962. The title of this poem is a satirical reference to Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality.”. Like Eliot’s other satirical quatrains ...
Whispers of Immortality. T. S. Eliot. 1888 –. 1965. Webster was much possessed by death. And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground. Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
