I'm having a little trouble understanding the form as you describe it in letters. I understand musical form using letters. Can you explain it further. Also I am in the process of studying this poem, I will look for other notes from you to assist. Thank you!
Like all art, there is, and should be, a part that cannot be easily explained.
It’s like the sense of taste. Somethings taste good and somethings don’t — and we can’t completely agree on what these are because our brains and biochemistry are not the same. Also our individual journeys are each unique — even twins born in the same family are not completely identical.
So how do we discuss our likes and dislikes — what we have discovered and found useful or worthless?
On the broadest sense we create language using metaphors and similes.
We try to find ways to condense meaning into symbols.
This describes mathematical equations, notes and lines on sheets of music, and things like iambic pentameter and sonnet rhyming schemes.
For me, the best way to study T. S. Eliot is to try and understand the man, the times he lived in, and what he thought he wanted to do with his writing.
It helps, I think, to know he experienced World War I, was a playwright, and was fascinated by language to include patterns of speaking.
In a sense, he thought of language musically.
His writings are intended to be read out loud. So find some good recordings of him and others reading the poems.
As to my daily posts, I’m all over the map and periodically throw a little T.S. Eliot into the mix — knowing most of my readers are not as obsessed on this writer as I am.
I'm having a little trouble understanding the form as you describe it in letters. I understand musical form using letters. Can you explain it further. Also I am in the process of studying this poem, I will look for other notes from you to assist. Thank you!
Like all art, there is, and should be, a part that cannot be easily explained.
It’s like the sense of taste. Somethings taste good and somethings don’t — and we can’t completely agree on what these are because our brains and biochemistry are not the same. Also our individual journeys are each unique — even twins born in the same family are not completely identical.
So how do we discuss our likes and dislikes — what we have discovered and found useful or worthless?
On the broadest sense we create language using metaphors and similes.
We try to find ways to condense meaning into symbols.
This describes mathematical equations, notes and lines on sheets of music, and things like iambic pentameter and sonnet rhyming schemes.
For me, the best way to study T. S. Eliot is to try and understand the man, the times he lived in, and what he thought he wanted to do with his writing.
It helps, I think, to know he experienced World War I, was a playwright, and was fascinated by language to include patterns of speaking.
In a sense, he thought of language musically.
His writings are intended to be read out loud. So find some good recordings of him and others reading the poems.
As to my daily posts, I’m all over the map and periodically throw a little T.S. Eliot into the mix — knowing most of my readers are not as obsessed on this writer as I am.