Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot were both reacting to modernism, but a dinner together did not bring about mutual understanding.
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Tag Archives: T. S. Eliot
Who Is the Third Always Beside You?
Eliot’s reference to the Road to Emmaus story in “The Wasteland” may be sign of hope rather than despair.
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Here Is No Water but Only Rock
Dry rocks have functioned as images of spiritual desolation throughout the history of Good Friday poetry.
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Hope Out of a Dry Bones Wasteland
In “The Waste Land,” Eliot alludes to Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones multiple times.
Prufrock Illustrated?!
An illustrated “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? What next?!
Rand Paul’s Misadventures with Poetry
Senator Rand Paul’s often may misapply poetry, but the poems he chooses tell us a lot about Rand Paul.
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Poetic Excuses for Losing at Tennis
Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.
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Drought Is a Form of God’s Joy
If we look at a drought through God’s eyes, Rumi tells us, we will see green corn. The same holds for relationships.
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