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The Anglo-American modernist poet T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was arguably the most influential poet of the twentieth century, and his 1922 poem The Waste Land is regarded variously as the greatest modernist poem, one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century, and a powerful depiction of post-war despair and disillusionment. But trying to ...
- T. S. Eliot - Interesting Literature
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Hollow...
- A Short Analysis of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’
A summary of a classic Eliot poem by Dr Oliver Tearle....
- T. S. Eliot - Interesting Literature
- T. S. Eliot
- 1922
- “April is the cruelest month, breeding. lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. memory and desire, stirring. dull roots with spring rain.” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
- “A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only. There is shadow under this red rock,
- “And I will show you something different from either. Your shadow at morning striding behind you. Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you. I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
- “For you know only a heap of broken images” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
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The Burial of the Dead. April is the cruellest month The Waste Land begins with a subversion of the first lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. He paints April as a month of restorative power, when spring rain brings nature back to life: “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droghte of March ...
Feb 25, 2017 · A summary of a classic Eliot poem by Dr Oliver Tearle. ‘Little Gidding’ is the last of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, but it is also his last significant poem. What’s more, there is a sense in this poem of Eliot seeking to join the threads of his work together, to ‘set a crown upon a lifetime’s effort’, as he puts it in ‘Little ...
I have heard the key. Turn in the door once and turn once only. We think of the key, each in his prison. Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison. T. S. Eliot. Who is the third who walks always beside you. When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road.
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The Waste Land and Other Poems Quotes Showing 1-23 of 23. “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.'. —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not. Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither.
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