Our poem for the Christmas holidays has two lessons for all writers. It comes from T.S. Eliot.
My introduction to TSE came in college, either a survey
course in modern poetry or as part of a literature survey. Professor C. Hines Edwards,
dry and erudite, was one of two that I admired for his knowledge of poetry
classical and structure-less.
He introduced TSE’s “The Wasteland” to us, a long poem known
for its allusions. The literary device allusions has its place in writing. In a
few brief words, it opens doors to additional meaning … much as Christina Rossetti’s
“From Sunrise to Starshine” did, with our realization that she’s a sleeping
beauty, briefly awakened, now in her thorn-guarded tower.
The allusion is the first of our two lessons, but it leads
into the second, a contradictory lesson and our final one for this series.
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Here’s Eliot’s poem, perfect for the holiday season.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction
01:17 Allusions / Easter Eggs
03:11 First Lesson
04:40 Symbolic Motifs
05:17 Re-Connecting with TSE
07:45 Second Lesson: Two-Sided
10:13 “The Journey of the Magi”
16:40 Closing
Total Run Time = 17:38
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#discoverability #symbolicmotifs #motif #writingadvice
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LINKS
TSEliot bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
“The Wasteland” https://genius.it/www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
“The Hollow Men” https://poets.org/poem/hollow-men
“Journey of the Magi” https://allpoetry.com/The-Journey-Of-The-Magi
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