Tag Archives: "Ash Wednesday"

Ash Wednesday: Teach Us to Sit Still

By Robin Bates | Published: February 21, 2023

In “Ash Wednesday,” T.S. Eliot sees despair as the starting point of faith.

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A Poem for Ash Wednesday

By Robin Bates | Published: March 1, 2022

Eliot and Levertov have written powerful poems capturing the spirit of Ash Wednesday.

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Live in the Layers, Not on the Litter

By Robin Bates | Published: September 15, 2018

Stanley Kunitz writes a variation of Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” that beautifully captures Yom Kippur themes.

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Tracking Eliot’s Spiritual Journey for Lent

By Robin Bates | Published: February 22, 2015

My Lenten discipline is to better understand T. S. Eliot’s religious poetry.

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Learning to Love the Desert

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2015

In “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot turns the despair of “Hollow Men” on its head, seeing it not as the end of hope but as the beginning of faith.

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