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TS ELIOT reads THE HOLLOW MEN #tseliot #poetry #history
May 20th, 2012 Tags: TS Eliot gidgetwidget poetry The Hollow Men Video Poetry Reading 20th Century culture
for thine is the kingdom, for thine …
T H E H O L L O W M E N
A penny for the Old Guy
I
WE are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us if at all not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men,
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging*
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death’s other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kCgr_UQ2Xw
Source archive.org Full Text “Poems 1909 1925”
May 20th, 2012 Tags: The Hollow Men History TS Eliot Poetry Poetry Reading Never Forget 20th Century gidgetwidget™ gidgetwidget image MUST READ MUST LISTEN LEARN SOMETHING culture
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SEND ME ON MY WAY by Rusted Root
Music to wake up to!
May 03rd, 2012 Tags: good morning Rusted Root Music gidgetwidget video
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For @Glukkake — SWEET IN THE MORNIN’ — Music to wake up to…
May 03rd, 2012 Tags: Bobby McFerrin Music Sweet In The Morning Medicine Music gidgetwidget
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LEA SALONGA #perfection — Backstage, sings the refrain, “A Whole New World,” to a (very sleepy/cranky) little girl.
Source:
Broadway Black
May 01st, 2012 Tags: theatre lea salonga music awesome poetry gidgetwidget Magic
Me? BIND Books? … all right, why not!
Hells to the yeah. What should I put in my little pocket vellum octavo ?
April 30th, 2012 Tags: gidgetwidget question book binding bibliophile blank page writing books
Afeminism recognizes feminine virtues. Feminists recognize Ryan Gosling. #SMH
(#saggtitz)
mwahahahah!
Copyright MMXII by GidgetWidget™, Afeminist
April 29th, 2012 Tags: Afeminism Feminists Feminism gidgetwidget photography image saitre humor saggytitz fashion culuture
A Greek word meaning TO DESTROY has the same sound as HELEN’s name. Obviously, Hell is the English equivalent of the pun. But I prefer not to use it, even at the expense of fidelity. Hell seems nowadays to lack dignity.
Edith Hamilton, AGAMEMNON (From a footnote) — 1939 W.W. Norton; 1965 Doris Fielding Reid, pg. 192
April 28th, 2012 Tags: Edith Hamilton quote Hell classics win footnotes gidgetwidget
#CATS ARE STILL READING AESCHYLUS…. currently debating the Dover Publications translation which is actually Mead 1909 or something…
April 28th, 2012 Tags: gidgetwidget cats cute classics aeschylus ancient greece
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IGGYBOOS: Last time you saw TWO orange tabby cats surrounded by NINE translations of Aeschylus?
That’s right. Get yo’ so random, you popopoipoipop
April 28th, 2012 Tags: classics aeschylus cats cute ancient drama theatre EPIC WIN GEEK LOVE gidgetwidget GidgetWidget™ ©KHC2012
G O T T H U C Y D I D E S ?
Have you read your Plato (Socrates) since 2011?
G O T T H U C Y D I D E S ?
April 02nd, 2012 Tags: philosophy question education classics photography Gidgetwidget
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