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... Tiresias to do with marginal snobberies about Bradford millionaires , and bed - divans , with gibes about carbuncles , or with the sniffy distaste on the subject of the young lady's underclothes . To say that Tiresias both generalises ...
... Tiresias to do with marginal snobberies about Bradford millionaires , and bed - divans , with gibes about carbuncles , or with the sniffy distaste on the subject of the young lady's underclothes . To say that Tiresias both generalises ...
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... Tiresias , and that in them ' Blind and spiritually embittered , Tiresias wrestles with buried emotions unwittingly revived ' ( p . 72 ) . There is , of course , nothing in the actual lines to tell us who is talking ; it is simply that ...
... Tiresias , and that in them ' Blind and spiritually embittered , Tiresias wrestles with buried emotions unwittingly revived ' ( p . 72 ) . There is , of course , nothing in the actual lines to tell us who is talking ; it is simply that ...
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... Tiresias , ' old man with wrinkled dugs ' . Indeed , this is the only point in the poem where the protagonist is explicitly identified . And Eliot's own note , that Tiresias is ' the most important personage in the poem , uniting all ...
... Tiresias , ' old man with wrinkled dugs ' . Indeed , this is the only point in the poem where the protagonist is explicitly identified . And Eliot's own note , that Tiresias is ' the most important personage in the poem , uniting all ...
Contents
F W BATESON The Poetry of Learning | 31 |
FRANCIS SCARFE Eliot and Nineteenthcentury | 45 |
a distinction | 62 |
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Action Française allusion appear argument Arnold artistic Babbitt Baudelaire become belief Bradley's Burbank Burnt Norton Christian Society Church commentaries Communism concept conscious context Criterion criticism culture discussion dramatic East Coker Eliot's Poetry emotion English essay existence Ezra Pound F. H. Bradley F. O. Matthiessen F. R. Leavis F. W. BATESON fact feeling Four Quartets Gerontion Grover Smith human idea imagery Immediate Experience impersonal kind Laforgue Laforgue's language later laughter lines literary literature Little Gidding living Maurras meaning metaphysical mind modern movement nature object passage perhaps philosophy play poem poem's poet poetic point of view political position problem prose Prufrock question reader reality reference relation religion religious seems sense significant social spiritual structure suggests Sweeney symbolic symbolist T. S. Eliot theme theory thought tion Tiresias tone tradition verse Waste Land whole words writing