Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi”—an odd Christmas poem
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Christmas poem, Eliot, modernism, modern poetry, poetry, the journey of the magi
One of Eliot’s post-conversion-to-Christianity poems, “Journey” is essentially a monologue delivered by one of the “wise men” who journeyed perhaps hundreds of miles long ago to visit the Messiah, if not in his infancy, at least in the earliest years. A manifestly modern poem, it…
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Eliot, modernism, modern poetry, poetry, the hollow men
The epigraph for T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem “The Hollow Men” is a quotation from Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, “Mistah Kurtz, he dead.” Fittingly the mysterious Kurtz, who is touted by one and all as a wonder boy, turns out to be hollow, a symbol…
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