tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post7716848255063283006..comments2024-02-05T09:17:53.322-08:00Comments on Adrian Barlow's blog: T.S. Eliot and the turning yearAdrian Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-85276152844478357612024-01-01T13:10:14.296-08:002024-01-01T13:10:14.296-08:00Thank you for re-posting your beautiful New Year&#...Thank you for re-posting your beautiful New Year's Day piece, Adrian. Such wonderful poetry, that offers much to think about and be comforted by.Ann KShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400446381529920300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-59911246428832520862024-01-01T07:37:45.162-08:002024-01-01T07:37:45.162-08:00This is a wonderful telling of things as they are,...This is a wonderful telling of things as they are, in which not a word is superfluous and in which nothing is added to forswear what is written. Peter Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16448566004422403386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-73847364269416008042020-11-16T13:16:53.136-08:002020-11-16T13:16:53.136-08:00Truly stunning stuff. I sit here 40 years after do...Truly stunning stuff. I sit here 40 years after doing Eliot in secondary school and adter some minor success as a poet and I marvel at how potent and modern his work remains Barricadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02147036235750336993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-85073095167277323862018-05-28T21:07:38.904-07:002018-05-28T21:07:38.904-07:00One of the most profound paragraphs I have ever he...One of the most profound paragraphs I have ever heard.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245146484747854034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-42971744191859228872018-05-28T21:06:12.464-07:002018-05-28T21:06:12.464-07:00I went to Boarding School in Ireland and I have al...I went to Boarding School in Ireland and I have always been arrested by!<br /><br />Does the bird sing in the south?<br />Only the sea-bird cries, driven inland by the storm.<br />What sign of the spring of the year?<br />Only the death of the old: not a stir, not a shoot, not a breath.<br />Do the days begin to lengthen?<br />Longer and darker the day, shorter and colder the night.<br />Still and stifling the air: but a wind is stored up in the East.<br />The starved crow sits in the field, attentive; and in the wood<br />The owl rehearses the hollow note of death.<br /><br />I have always been in some way absorbed by these words, they will take me to my grave.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245146484747854034noreply@blogger.com