Katherine Anne Porter took the title "Flowering Judas" from this poem, whose speaker has lost his (*) passion, "sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch."
A woman in this poem "gives with such supple confusions / That the giving famishes the craving." This poem popularized a term for Cold War-era intelligence practice of spreading misinformation with its image of a "a wilderness of mirrors." The opening stanza of this poem mentions that "the goat coughs at night in the field overhead" the speaker's house, which is where "the jew squats on the window sill." In this poem, Christ comes as a tiger to the fictional foreign personages Mr. Silvero, Hakagawa, Madame de Tornquist, and Fraulein von Kulp. Katherine Anne Porter took the title "Flowering Judas" from this poem, whose speaker has lost his (*) passion, "sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch." Prior to Ezra Pound's intervention, the preface to The Waste Land was going to be this poem, which asks "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" and ends: "Tenants of the house, thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." For 10 points, name this poem written from the perspective of an "old man in a dry month," by T.S. Eliot
A woman in this poem "gives with such supple confusions / That the giving famishes the craving."
: "Gerontion"