2006-07-23 18:51:08 · 3 answers · asked by rainmaker 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Eliot puts the words "I should be glad of another death" in the mouth of one of the Magi in his "Journey of the Magi." He has the same fellow say, "I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different; this Birth was hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death." He is thus saying that Christ's nativity was a certain kind of death for him and his companions, both in the journey itself and in the change from their previous lives. Eliot has him say that if he had the choice, he would have preferred a different way to "die," another way of saying, I think, that he felt he would have preferred his old life to the new one that began with Christ's birth..
2006-07-24 14:14:46 · answer #1 · answered by haroldpohl2000 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is from 'Journey Of The Magi.'
He was talking about getting old, having seen and done much, and being contented with his own on-coming old-age death, accepting the inevitable.
2006-07-23 19:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because death means change
2006-07-23 19:07:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋