Tag Archives: T.S. Eliot

Eliot’s Search for Hope in Dry Bones

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2023

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

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2022

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

By Robin Bates | Published: June 16, 2020

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

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2010

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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