Posted by leeran on April 21, 2003, at 1:39:19
In reply to ISOM...READ THIS POST TS ELLIOT FAN, posted by lostsailor on April 21, 2003, at 0:26:09
I spent half a semester on this one poem it seemed, in an English course focusing on T.S. Eliot/James Joyce.
I can still read this and get tingly all over . . . my favorite poem of all time (too long to post in its entirety).
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question. . .
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
poster:leeran
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