Tag Archives: T.S. Eliot

When Bicycling, Marvels Coast By

Two weeks of cycling in Madison have brought me to this William Stafford poem.

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The Trinity: Beyond, Beside Us, and Within

Maybe, to understand the Trinity, we need poets like Malcolm Guite.

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Cormorant Delivers Pentecostal Message

When it comes to hearing the Holy Spirit, Derek Walcott finds it easier in Trinidad than in Boston.

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T.S. Eliot’s Cats and Jesus’s Sheep

In a sermon about Jesus as shepherd knowing each of our names, Scott Lee cites a T.S. Eliot cat poem.

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Empire of Light, Filled with Poetry

The film “Empire of Light” is magical in part because of all the poetry recited.

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Eliot’s Search for Hope in Dry Bones

T.S. Eliot conveys his spiritual desolation in “Waste Land” with references to Ezekiel’s dry bones. But, in the end, there’s a faint sign of hope.

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I Am Lazarus, Come Back from the Dead

Eliot makes devastating use of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

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A Second Grader Reads Eliot’s Cats

I’ve been teaching poetry to my second-grade grandson. He’s in love with T. S. Eliot’s cats.

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Becoming the Hero of Our Own Life

David Copperfield  (1935)         “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show,” writes narrator David Copperfield at the beginning of the great Charles Dickens novel.  But why the uncertainty?  Can’t we just decide to be the hero of […]

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