No exams now for me; I am revisiting T.S. Eliot many years later to gain a better understanding of his poetry than I did the first time round. Many thanks; a great study that makes his poetry so much more comprehensible.
I can't agree with your interpretation! Sweeny isn't knocked unconscious, he sees the woman on the floor and the offer of exotic fruit, understands, DECLINES THE GAMBIT and, disappointed, leaves. Eliot said there is no story here, just abstract images for us to contemplate, and that each reader will find something different from what the author meant. It's a perfect forerunner to The Waste Land. (at least, that's what this reader sees!)
No exams now for me; I am revisiting T.S. Eliot many years later to gain a better understanding of his poetry than I did the first time round. Many thanks; a great study that makes his poetry so much more comprehensible.
It would be a service to humanity in general and autodidacts in particular to make more such available, perhaps on a personal channel.
What a voice
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge!
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I found it to be a very nice explanation. Thank you.
Thank you for this professor!! It was useful
I can't agree with your interpretation! Sweeny isn't knocked unconscious, he sees the woman on the floor and the offer of exotic fruit, understands, DECLINES THE GAMBIT and, disappointed, leaves. Eliot said there is no story here, just abstract images for us to contemplate, and that each reader will find something different from what the author meant. It's a perfect forerunner to The Waste Land. (at least, that's what this reader sees!)
Tomorrow is my exam it was very helpful 😎
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This guys voice is sick
Your analysis is great but the poem is just low level. Ts eliot sould had stoped refering nightingales.