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Há 5 dias · Here is an occasion to conjure up, yet again, the reworded words of Eliot: for a performer, the most individual parts of his or her performance may be those in which the dead poets, as figurative ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously.
Há 5 dias · Eliot originally intended the epigraph to be a small section of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness describing the death of the character Kurtz. Pound suggested it be changed as he felt Conrad was not "weighty" enough, although it is unclear if he was referring to the author or the quotation itself.
- T. S. Eliot
- 1922
Há 5 dias · Here I focus on two further passages in the Theognidean anthology, verses 1209–1210 and 1229–1230, where the idea of a recomposed performer is taken one step further. In these verses, I argue, the persona of the poet is speaking as if he were already dead—as a “dead poet” personified.
Há 5 dias · In Part I, I applied this idea of “dead poets” to ideas about “reperformance” in a song culture like that of the ancient Greeks, where the basic reality of performance is still needed to bring a poetic composition to life.
Há 3 dias · It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1981
12 de mai. de 2024 · Explore the life and poetic evolution of T.S. Eliot through a unique course structured around the thematic parallels of Dante's Divine Comedy—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Há 3 dias · T.S. Eliot : His Life and Works 1888-1929 Quiz. It's all about T.S. Eliot. If you consider yourself a poet, a literary buff, or just an Eliot fanatic, test your knowledge here. A multiple-choice quiz by gman89 .
