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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
It’s been too long that I have depraved myself of poetry. All that’s left to say is:
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
Excerpt From
Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
Excerpt From
Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Dense interesting poetry - still rereading and annotating themes.
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
I’m only giving this three stars on my initial reading. It’s obvious to me that most of this went over my head, but there are some really interesting lines in here that bear pondering and study when I get some time. So three stars is for my enjoyment factor not how great this book is.
Simply one of the best pieces of poetry I have ever read. I adore Elliot. He's a powerful master of words, and this collection should not be overlooked by anyone.
I have not been an avid reader of poetry throughout my life - glad I didn't start with this one. For me it's just too stuffy, stolid, and scholarly. I much prefer the passion of Mary Oliver or Maya Angelou, or Robert Frost and Tennyson for that matter. If it wasn't for my love of these last two, I might think I'm averse to old dude poetry.
I've listened and read (Paul Scofield's reading is masterful), listened only, and now read only. I read one poem per day - or a couple of days 2.
I understand a tiny bit more every reading and love it more each time.
I understand a tiny bit more every reading and love it more each time.
Beauty in every word. Even if I didn’t grasp the meaning all the time, the rhyme and the flow of the four poems, the used metaphors, the spellbinding imagery, it was such an enchanting read.
Favorites are the first and last one.
Favorites are the first and last one.
‘For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.’
★★★★★
And next year's words await another voice.’
★★★★★
Sure he was revolutionary at his time. But in a pseudo-intellectual way, which is not accessible today and could not have been in its time. It reads more as a middle-aged mans rambles of what could be, rather than being a book to provoke activism.
It was a good seed, but now many film-makers have improved on the themes of anti-corporation drudgery, and inward search and dreary worlds. I suppose first works are never the definitive of its genre.
It was a good seed, but now many film-makers have improved on the themes of anti-corporation drudgery, and inward search and dreary worlds. I suppose first works are never the definitive of its genre.