"Annotated versions Recordings The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the"
"Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most ""Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most"" (1955) is a popular song with lyrics by Fran Landesman, ""the poet laureate of lovers and losers,"" set to music by Tommy Wolf. The title is a jazz rendition of the opening line of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, ""April is the cruellest month"". The song was featured in the 1959 Broadway musical ""The Nervous Set,"" but was written in 1955 before this musical and was incorporated into it. Tommy Wolf was a pianist, composer, arranger, and musical director who met Fran Landesman while"
"and annotated by Valerie Eliot. The full poem prior to the Pound editorial changes is contained in the facsimile. The drafts of the poem reveal that it originally contained almost twice as much material as the final published version. The significant cuts are in part due to Ezra Pound's suggested changes, although Eliot himself also removed large sections. The now famous opening lines of the poem—""April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land""—did not originally appear until the top of the second page of the typescript. The first page of the typescript contained 54 lines"
"full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression. The Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Australia (PAANDA) presented ""Spring Storm"" in 2018. The play was directed by Courtney McManus and Stage managed by Carmel Mohen. The play's original title was ""April is the Cruelest Month,"" which was also the opening line from T. S. Eliot's poem ""The Waste Land."" When Williams presented ""Spring Storm"" to his playwriting class in April 1938, he wrote in his diary that the class, ""Read the final version of my second act and it was finally,"
"""fiery heart,"" depicted the bird ""as an instance of natural poetic creation,"" and as the ""voice of nature."" Other notable mentions include: The Philomela myth is perpetuated largely through its appearance as a powerful device in poetry. In the 20th century, American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) directly referenced the myth in his most famous poem, ""The Waste Land"" (1922), where he describes, <poem> The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale Filled all the desert with inviolable voice And still she cried, and still the world pursues, ""Jug Jug"" to dirty ears."
"on October 31, which particularly in the United States were conflated with Guy Fawkes’ celebrations over the course of the 19th Century. Some critics read the poem as told from three perspectives, each representing a phase of the passing of a soul into one of death's kingdoms (""death's dream kingdom"", ""death's twilight kingdom"", and ""death's other kingdom""). Eliot describes how we, the living, wish to be seen by ""Those who have crossed/With direct eyes [...] not as lost/Violent souls, but only/As the hollow men/The stuffed men."" The image of eyes figures prominently in the poem, notably in one of Eliot's"
"Whitman's elegy in fashioning his poem ""The Waste Land"" (1922). In the poem, Eliot prominently mentions lilacs and April in its opening lines, and later passages about ""dry grass singing"" and ""where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees."" Eliot told author Ford Madox Ford that Whitman and his own lines adorned by lilacs and the hermit thrush were the poems' only ""good lines"" Cleo McNelly Kearns writes that ""Whitman's poem gives us not only motifs and images of ""The Waste Land""...but its very tone and pace, the steady andante which makes of both poems a walking meditation."" While Eliot"
"""The Waste Land"" served as an expression of disillusionment after World War I, even though Eliot never accepted this interpretation. World War II itself has a direct mention in only a few of Eliot's writings. However, World War II does affect the poem, especially with the disruption caused by the war being reflected within the poem as a disruption of nature and heaven. The poem describes society in ways similar to ""The Waste Land"", especially with its emphasis on death and dying. The place is connected to where Eliot's family originates, and, as such, is also the place where his"
"way. It also features at the start and as a recurrent theme in Iain Aitch's travelogue ""A Fete Worse Than Death"". The author was born in the town. T. S. Eliot, who recuperated after a mental breakdown in the suburb of Cliftonville in 1921, commented in his poem ""The Waste Land Part III - The Fire Sermon"": Draper's Mill is a smock mill built in 1845 by John Holman. It was working by wind until 1916 and by engine until the late 1930s. It was saved from demolition and is now restored and open to the public. The town appeared"
"a pine-belt. Next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the sumacs grow. Three days later, the hill-sides as fast as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold. Then a wet wind blew, and ruined all the uniforms of that gorgeous army; and the oaks, who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed cuirasses and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained but pencil-shadings of bare boughs, and one could see into the most private heart of the woods."" In February"
"of personal difficulty for Eliot—his marriage was failing, and both he and Vivienne were suffering from nervous disorders. The poem is often read as a representation of the disillusionment of the post-war generation. Before the poem's publication as a book in December 1922, Eliot distanced himself from its vision of despair. On 15 November 1922, he wrote to Richard Aldington, saying, ""As for ""The Waste Land"", that is a thing of the past so far as I am concerned and I am now feeling toward a new form and style."" The poem is known for its obscure nature—its slippage between"
"Coatlicue, Tlaloc, Chalchitlicue, Tona. In the month ""Hueytozoztli"" (from April 3 to April 22) a maid; a boy and a girl were sacrificed to Cintéotl, Chicomecacóatl, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl. In the month ""Tepeilhuitl"" (from September 30 to October 19) children and two noble women were sacrificed by extraction of the heart and flaying; ritual cannibalism in honor of Tláloc-Napatecuhtli, Matlalcueye, Xochitécatl, Mayáhuel, Milnáhuatl, Napatecuhtli, Chicomecóatl, Xochiquétzal. In the month ""Atemoztli"" (from November 29 to December 18) children and slaves were sacrificed by decapitation in honor to the Tlaloques. Archaeologists have also uncovered physical evidence of child sacrifice at several other"
"Blōtmōnaþ Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: ""blót month"") was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of November. The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise ""De temporum ratione"" (The Reckoning of Time), saying ""Blod-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods.” An entry in the Menologium seu Calendarium Poeticum, an Anglo-Saxon poem about the months, explains that “this month is called ""Novembris"" in Latin, and in our language the ""month of sacrifice"", because our forefathers, when they were heathens, always sacrificed in"
"to frequent fog and smog. In 1844 he wrote, ""No sun – no moon! ""No morn – no noon – ""No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day. ""No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, ""No comfortable feel in any member – ""No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, ""No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – ""November!"" An example of Hood's reflective and sentimental verse is the famous ""I Remember, I Remember"", excerpted here: ""I remember, I remember ""The house where I was born, ""The little window where the sun ""Came peeping in at"
"one day does not make a spring, so one day or a short time does not make a fortunate or happy man."" The barn swallow symbolises the coming of spring and thus love in the ""Pervigilium Veneris"", a late Latin poem. In his poem ""The Waste Land"", T. S. Eliot quoted the line """"Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?"""" (""When will I be like the swallow, so that I can stop being silent?"") This refers to the myth of Philomela in which she turns into a nightingale, and her sister Procne into a swallow. On the other hand, an"
"shattered love for Rosalind, praise for Queen Elizabeth, and encomia to the rustic Shepherd's life, are titled for the months of the year. Each eclogue is preceded by a woodcut and followed by a motto describing the speaker. The opening line of each eclogue expresses characteristics of the month, and the poem as a whole charts common accuracy of the seasons, the toil and celebrations of the village year. The precision of the description of birds, flowers, and harvests is balanced by an underlying theme of the hardships and rituals that each season entails. Each pastoral in the poem can"
"who had recently become his son-in-law, John Watkins (1809–1858), described the poet's last moments in his “On The Death of Ebenezer Elliott”. Still another tribute with the same title was written by the labouring class poet, John Critchley Prince, in his “Poetic Rosary” (1850) Though honouring him as “No trifling, tinkling, moon-struck Bard"" and ""The proud, unpensioned Laureate of the Poor”, it also acknowledged the elemental violence of his writing. The American poet John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Elliott”, on the other hand, is as forceful as the Englishman had been, forbidding the capitalist “locust swarm that cursed The harvest-fields of"
"in London can be gauged from an unsigned review in ""The Times Literary Supplement"" on 21 June 1917. ""The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself. They certainly have no relation to ""poetry""."" In October 1922, Eliot published ""The Waste Land"" in ""The Criterion"". Eliot's dedication to ""il miglior fabbro"" (""the better craftsman"") refers to Ezra Pound's significant hand in editing and reshaping the poem from a longer Eliot manuscript to the shortened version that appears in publication. It was composed during a period"
"that sent him further into debt. On September 13, a Virginia newspaper reported that corn crops would be one half to two-thirds short and lamented that ""the cold as well as the drought has nipt the buds of hope"". A Norfolk, Virginia newspaper reported: It is now the middle of July, and we have not yet had what could properly be called summer. Easterly winds have prevailed for nearly three months past ... the sun during that time has generally been obscured and the sky overcast with clouds; the air has been damp and uncomfortable, and frequently so chilling as"
"the month. Averaged over Victoria, February 1911 stands as the third-wettest month since 1885 after October 1975 and February 1973. Heavy monsoonal rain drenched Queensland throughout the summer. These months, however, were virtually rainless in the southwestern quarter of the continent and quite dry in the Kimberley and Top End. Early March saw exceptionally heavy rains in southern Victoria and eastern Tasmania: Melbourne's rainfall of remains a March record. However, in the Top End and Kimberley, drought was already established as Darwin had its ""driest"" March in 138 years of record with only as against an average of . April"
"Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland"" chastising them for their cruelty to their slaves. He wrote, ""I think God has a Quarrel with you for your Abuse of and Cruelty to the poor Negroes."" Furthermore, Whitefield wrote: ""Your dogs are caressed and fondled at your tables; but your slaves who are frequently styled dogs or beasts, have not an equal privilege."" However, Whitefield ""stopped short of rendering a moral judgment on slavery itself as an institution."" The Bethesda Orphanage ""set an example of humane treatment of slaves"". Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), who was a slave, wrote a poem ""On the Death of the"
"Tishrei Tishrei ( or Tishri ; ""tishré"" or ""tishrí""); from Akkadian ""tašrītu"" ""Beginning"", from ""šurrû"" ""To begin"") is the first month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year (which starts on 1 Nisan) in the Hebrew calendar. The name of the month is Babylonian. It is an autumn month of 30 days. Tishrei usually occurs in September–October on the Gregorian calendar. In the Hebrew Bible, before the Babylonian Exile, the month is called Ethanim ( - ). Edwin R. Thiele has concluded, in ""The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings"","
"beauty. Below is a copy of a sonnet which is one of a number he wrote, entitled, ""In the shadows."" His description of a wet October day shows the skill of the terminally-ill poet: October's gold is dim— the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. In mire of village way Tae hedge-row leaves are stamp'd, and, all forgot, The broodless nest sits visible in the thorn. Autumn, among her drooping marigolds, Weeps all her garnered sheaves, and empty folds, And dripping orchards — plundered and forlorn. The season is a dead one,"
"The Hollow Men ""The Hollow Men"" (1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned most with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised: compare ""Gerontion""), the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, and, as some critics argue, Eliot's own failed marriage (Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot might have been having an affair with Bertrand Russell). The poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines of which the last four are ""probably the most quoted lines of"
"poem ""The Waste Land."" Lines 60–68 read: Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. At the time he wrote this section, Eliot was working for a bank in the City. King William Street, London King William Street is"
"Guerret El Anz Guerret El Anz is the time of the year, according to the berber calendar, between February 14 and February 19. This period is known by its cruel cold. The word ""Guerret"" comes from the French word ""guerre"" which means ""war"" in English. ""El Anz"" is an Arabic word which means ""goats"". This expression describe the intense cold during this period like a war endured by the goats who are not very resistant to the cold due to their fine skins. In Tunisia, it is usual to say ""Tjamber Koul w Gamber"" (Arabic: تجمبر كول وقمبر). It is"
"""The Waste Land,"") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and ""one of the twentieth century's major poets"". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age"
"at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated in, on the faith of monstrous representations, to many people's ruin. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away: cleared here and there for the space of a few yards; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon"
"remorseless setting to equally rough and rugged words that express extreme bitterness, while again the character in the poem who utters them seems, although forced to do the most wretched and demeaning work, to possess some education. The almost military funeral march in F minor which pervades the song has a fearsome...accompaniment for the pianist, extremely difficilt as it is written. Only the last two bars of the song are free of accidentals.; and the doleful and pessimistic harmonies, constantly shifting, spell the tota unhappiness and hopelessness of the workman. Only the mention of walks in the fields on Sundays"
"Weōdmōnaþ Ƿēodmōnaþ (modern English: ""Weed (or Grass) Month"") was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of August. The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise ""De temporum ratione"" (The Reckoning of Time), saying that ""Vueod-Monath is the month of weeds, as this is the time when they grow most abundantly” Ƿēodmōnaþ is also explained in Menologium of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: “Agustus mōnaþ on ūre geþeōde ƿē nemnaþ Ƿeōdmōnaþ, for ðon ðe hī on ðam mōnþe mǣst geƿeaxaþ.” """"The month of ""Agustus"" we call the ""weed month"" in our language, for these grow most in this month.”"
"Weōdmōnaþ Ƿēodmōnaþ (modern English: ""Weed (or Grass) Month"") was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of August. The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise ""De temporum ratione"" (The Reckoning of Time), saying that ""Vueod-Monath is the month of weeds, as this is the time when they grow most abundantly” Ƿēodmōnaþ is also explained in Menologium of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: “Agustus mōnaþ on ūre geþeōde ƿē nemnaþ Ƿeōdmōnaþ, for ðon ðe hī on ðam mōnþe mǣst geƿeaxaþ.” """"The month of ""Agustus"" we call the ""weed month"" in our language, for these grow most in this month.”"
"never reprinted by Zukofsky. He considered Ezra Pound the most important living poet of his youth. In 1927, he sent his poem ""Poem beginning ""The"""" to him. Addressed mostly to the poet's mother, the poem was in part a parody of T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"". In contrast to Eliot's pessimistic view of the modern world, ""The"" suggests a bright future for Western culture, based in Zukofsky's belief in the energy the new immigrants brought to the United States and in the October Revolution. Pound was impressed by the poem and published it a year later in the journal"
"misplaces a ""pharmakon"" entrusted to him by the king of the gods, thereby causing humanity to lose its eternal youth. The symbolism of bread for the October Horse is unstated in the ancient sources. Robert Turcan has seen the garland of loaves as a way to thank Mars for protecting the harvest. Mars was linked to Vesta, the Regia, and the production of grain through several religious observances. In his poem on the calendar, Ovid thematically connects bread and war throughout the month of June (""Iunius"", a name for which Ovid offers multiple derivations including Juno and ""youths"", ""iuniores""). Immediately"