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Selected Poems

By T. S. Eliot

(17)

| Paperback | 9780571057061

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Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”-as wellContinue

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CITAZIONE :What the thunder said

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
after the frosty silence in the garden
after the agony in stony places
the shouting and the crying
prison and palace and reverberation
of thunder of spring over distant mountains
he who was living is now dead
we who were li ... (continue)

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
after the frosty silence in the garden
after the agony in stony places
the shouting and the crying
prison and palace and reverberation
of thunder of spring over distant mountains
he who was living is now dead
we who were living are now dying
with a little patience
................
Then spoke the thunder
Datta:what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
the awful daring of a moment's surrender
which an age of prudence can never retract
by this and this only we have existed
which is not to be found in our obituaries
or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
in our empty rooms
............................
I sat upon the shore fishing
with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
................................
These fragments have I shored against my ruins
Datta - Dayadhvam - Damyatta
Shantih shantih shantih

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