" The work describes a staircase as "damp, jaggedÂ…beyond repair", comparing it to "an old man's drivellingÂ…or the toothed gullet of aged shark.
In one review, Gerald Heard questioned whether this work fit into the Authorized Version of Milton and Dryden or the iconographic tradition of Crashaw and Dryden and Edmund Wilson said this work had a "definite feature of inferiority." The work describes a staircase as "damp, jaggedÂ…beyond repair", comparing it to "an old man's drivellingÂ…or the toothed gullet of aged shark." Â This work's second section ends by claiming "This is the land which ye / Shall divide by lot / And neither division nor unity / Matters" Â and states that the land is "our inheritance". This poem begins with the repetitive plea (*) "Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn" and then begs that God "have mercy upon us / And pray that I may forget / These matters that with myself I too much discuss." Meditating on the author's recent conversation to Anglicanism, for ten points, name this 1930 T.S. Eliot poem named for a religious holiday.
In one review, Gerald Heard questioned whether this work fit into the Authorized Version of Milton and Dryden or the iconographic tradition of Crashaw and Dryden and Edmund Wilson said this work had a "definite feature of inferiority.
"Ash Wednesday"