T. S. Eliot's FOUR QUARTETS

[Genie]

Stunning stuff! Meditative and full of poetic images. You might want to read (again and again)
FOUR QUARTETS

[Fea~mar~vanwa~tyalieva~*]

I love TS Eliot poetry! have you read the love song of j alfred prufrock, portrait of a lady, la figlia che piange? those are my favourite poems.
I also think that his images are magnificient. I read his poetry just for the images and the impressions I get...it's hard to understand the poems of course
I remember when I was in school, me and my friends would walk through the hall reciting prufrock (yes we memorized it)! hahah we were such nerds.... :)
I like the four quartets, and I've read it before... :) and now I've read it again.

[Pepe]

I agree. Marvelous poetry. I was surprised when I read it for the first time . I'm Spanish and it took me quite an effort... :p but it´s astonishing, and the end is so great: "The rose and the fire are one"

[Stanley Anderson]

I love TS Eliot poetry! have you read the love song of j alfred prufrock

Are you familiar with Lewis' poem that references that poem? It is called A Confession and begins thus:

I am so course, the things the poets see
Are obstinately invisible to me.
For twenty years I've stared my level best
To see if evening--any evening--would suggest
A patient etherized upon a table;
In vain. I simply wasn't able.
To me each eveing looked far more
Like the departure from a silent, yet crowded, shore
Of a ship whose freight was everything, leaving behind
Gracefully, finally, without farewells, marooned mankind.

Ironically, I enjoy both poems.

--Stanley

[hana]

I'm a fan of T.S. Eliot as well of Lewis (of course) too. I got to write a nice long paper on "The Hollow Men," a poem that holds much in common with "Eyes That Last I Saw In Tears," a favorite of mine that I memorized when I was younger. I think of that paper often lately since I've been working on grad school apps, and it was my favorite long paper, and I (of course) lost it.
Last night I was watching a Woody Allen movie and Woody Allen quoted the line that goes something like "I wish I was a pair of ragged claws..." etc. Doubtless i've botched the quote. You know the one I mean anyway.

I love T.S. Eliot's plays, and especially The Cocktail Party. I've only recently discovered how much fun reading modern plays is. Sort of like watching a sitcom. I was on a Shaw kick October of last year . I was even reading a Shaw play while going into labor at the hospital!