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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T.S. Eliot’s Cats and Jesus’s Sheep
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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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Death's Echo", "Trees", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ali Fears Eats the Soul, Chariots of Fire, cinema, Empire of Light, In Memoriam, Philip Larkin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. H. Auden, Waste Land Comments closed
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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