T.S. Eliot by G. Atkins

Author:G. Atkins [Atkins, G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137444486
Publisher: PalgraveMacmillan
Published: 2014-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

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On Turning and Not-Turning: Ash-Wednesday: Six Poems and A Song for Simeon

Abstract: Ash-Wednesday places special burdens on the reader, developing strategies begun in earlier poems and moving toward fulfillment of efforts and effects, requiring mindfulness of the poems’ disparate voices and their falsehoods. Rather than turn from the world, Eliot dramatizes the Christian call to turn toward the “Lady of silences,” thence the world: the world redeemed via the Incarnation entails God’s working in, through, and by means that include falsehoods and evil. To Ash-Wednesday, the Ariel poem A Song for Simeon (1928) stands as counterpoint, being for the aged Jew who speaks the poem and in whom the effects of the Incarnation are dramatized. Eliot turns an apparent spiritual autobiography into a dramatic mirror in which Simeon may see himself.

Atkins, G. Douglas. T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian. New York. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137444462.0006.

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