Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them, Rode across the hills and broke them-- The barren New England hills-- Riding to hounds Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they knew that it was modern.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith, The army of unalterable law.
The Question and Answer section for T.S. Eliot: Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
A 'prelude' – literally 'before the play' – is a brief musical composition that is played before the main piece. This suggests that these poems are small-scale: as well as being short, they are seeking to capture something small, in this case the...
Religion is a potent theme that surfaces in the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Eliot discusses its relevance for a modern age beset by moral degeneration, war and uncertainty. Eliot's work is characterised by its extensive use of intertextuality,...
Book V? Analogies make connections between those things that are familiar, and those that are not. In this section, which was written to follow the climbing of Snowdon Downs, Wordsworth is making a connection between man and nature.
