do his poems have an overall reoccuring theme?!
2007-02-28 16:20:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
eliot has a reoccuring theme of mortalilty and daily life- he often speaks of heaven, and reminds us that faith should be the first thing on our mind. :
1. Gerontion
*HERE I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
I was neither at the hot gates
Nor fought in the warm rain
Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, 5
Bitten by flies, fought.
2. the hippo:
THE BROAD-BACKED hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.
Flesh and blood is weak and frail, 5
Susceptible to nervous shock;
While the True Church can never fail
For it is based upon a rock.
2007-02-28 16:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by lil_hippie_chic771 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whenever I read T.S. Elliot I get this overwhelming sense of quiet suffocating desperation.
2007-03-01 00:25:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Despair, disillusionment about modern life.
2007-03-01 00:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by trypanophobic34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death and the hope of rebirth (concealed or hinted at, one way or another). Death meaning not the death of one individual, but the death of what we think of as civilization.
2007-03-01 01:10:29 · answer #4 · answered by silvcslt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea, sadness.
2007-03-01 00:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by simonetherabbitluva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋