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Lines from TSE routinely get stuck in my head and remain there for a good 2-3 days. The latest:
"This form, this face, this life
Living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me
Resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken,
The awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships."
-- Marina
"This form, this face, this life
Living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me
Resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken,
The awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships."
-- Marina
posted by johnk at
8:01 PM
2 Comments:
I love that style Eliot has where he trails off a thought by ending with a line that uses a series of breaks by commas between metaphors, personal moments and observations. It lends an overall elegaic tone to his work that just gets me.
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Christopher, At
11:01 AM
I hear ya. Marina is probably my favorite "non-quartets" poem. He did a lot of sailing as a New Englander, and sea/sailing allusions occur throughout his work. (Another favorite: the "ragged rock in restless waters" from the Dry Salvages). There's a point at which words break down -- "leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle with words and meanings" -- and allusions, vague pictures, etc. are really the only avenues of communication left open. Eliot's mastery over such things is what makes him so great, in my mind at least...
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johnk, At
12:08 PM
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