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Whispers of Immortality - T.S. Eliot

March 7th 2008 09:03

Poetry of T. S. Eliot

Whispers of Immortality

Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls

Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

Donne, I suppose, was such another
Who found no substitute for sense;
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience,

He knew the anguish of the marrow
The ague of the skeleton;
No contact possible to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.
. . . . .
Grishkin is nice: her
Russian eye is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

The couched Brazilian jaguar
Compels the scampering marmoset
With subtle effluence of cat;
Grishkin has a maisonette;

The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.

And even the Abstract Entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.

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Comment by tlcorbin

March 8th 2008 05:25

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Elliot lost me on this one katyzzz, I've not gotten into a cerebral mindset as yet tonight. But I understand the lighthouse. Raven

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March 8th 2008 06:01

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So glad you got the lighthouse, a lot of poetry is best explained by an educated person who is really passionate about poetry and is well informed and knows his subject, I got a lot of it but wondered about a few points.

Certainly the little local poetry club generally would not be much help.

They would just clasp their breasts/ chests, their own, hopefully not each others and declare how wonderful it all is.

Won't attract too many votes with that one.

Comment by tlcorbin

March 8th 2008 06:52

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Stranger things have happened katyzzz. Oh, my art students sold some of their works at their art show this evening and called me to share in their excitement. Raven

Comment by katyzzz

March 8th 2008 08:53

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I didn't realize you taught art Raven, you should do a guest for mspaintart, if you can stand to be present with such a scurrilous woman as katyzzz who is me incidentally, not anyone else, how could I ever be anyone else, how silly.

Actually I'm thinking of becoming Bill Gates, that'd be cool, as techno likes to say.

Comment by katyzzz

March 8th 2008 08:56

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Congrats to you and your students, and all this time I've been thinking you're a black Raven.

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