Monday 5 July 2010

T S Eliot from beyond the grave

Continuing our dead poets series we come to T S Eliot.

Simple guidelines on how to construct your own dead poet novelty poem appear together with a Thomas Hardy poem from the beyond. It's just a few posts below this one.

T S Eliot's poem from beyond the grave

In the room the women come and go
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks
Under the twinkle of a fading star

Redeem the time, redeem the dream

In the land of lobelias and tennis flannels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells;
And woodthrush calling through the fog

The stubborn season has made stand

And you see the corner of her eye
Among whispers; by Mr Silvero
And other heroes of that kidney

Assured of certain certainties

A meagre blue-nailed phthisic hand
The lengthened shadow of a man
Letting his arms hang down to laugh

To keep our metaphysics warm.

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2010 gw/tse

9 comments:

  1. Thank you Gordon. I'm making it longer.

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  2. I can't understand why these poems make such an impact - can you explain it? Is it because they are such good poets in the first place?

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  3. Weaver,
    They must be good poets, I wouln't try and do it with a not good poet. But, hey, maybe you have something. Now that's an idea. I will search the web and find the most terrible verses and then ... but on 2nd thoughts perhaps not. Certainly not.

    Your answer must be on the right lines.

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  4. I agree - on a roll well done Gwilym
    john

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  5. you might be a reincarnation. But reincarnations are pot luck, you could have gotten Hitler, or Mickey Mouse. Count your blessings...

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  6. Thank you John and Mags for your comments. They haven't appeared here yet...don't know why not. But as you see I've received them.

    Maybe they'll appear here in due course.

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  7. Yup, he stills sounds dyspeptic...in an aesthetically pleasing way, of course.

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  8. My comments boxes are working again. Bit of a hiccup there but now all OK. Thanks to everyone for their patience.

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