Eliot And Chaucer
A trivia quickie to poetry fans: "Of which vertu engendred is the flour" is arguably a basis for which Dylan Thomas poem? Tick, tick...
Less fun to remember, from Eliot's The Waste Land:
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Chaucer's people get a long walk, toward redemption no less! Stories, music, sex in the bushes. Eliot casts his beaten-down modernist shroud on the very same scene. If Disney had written Fantasia to recapitulate Chaucer and Eliot, Pan would splash the gardens of Arcadia with wild color, swollen flowers, happy rutting noises. Then Eeyore would saunter to the center of every clearing to take a dump.
The April months of my own experience seem to carry the argument to one side or the other, but this year it's a mixed bag. Approaching 43, the rise I get from......
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