This author asks "why should I need to keep [my passion] since what is kept must be adulterated," one of the "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." His description of "depraved May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering judas, to be eaten, to be divided, to be drunk" in the same poem draws from The Education of Henry Adams. The poem giving those quotes is read by "an old man
This author asks "why should I need to keep [my passion] since what is kept must be adulterated," one of the "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." His description of "depraved May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering judas, to be eaten, to be divided, to be drunk" in the same poem draws from The Education of Henry Adams. The poem giving those quotes is read by "an old man in a dry month" and called "Gerontion," and originally intended as the prelude to "The Burial of the Dead." For 10 points, who also wrote the sections "The Fire Sermon," "A Game of Chess," and "Death by Water" in his poem "The Wasteland"?
This author asks "why should I need to keep [my passion] since what is kept must be adulterated," one of the "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season."
Thomas Stearns {Eliot}