April is the cruelest month

[Poincare]

With the COVID19 deaths mounting next month, this phrase from WHOM in what POEM will take on an entire new meaning....

 

No googling gurls!

[Guy Fawkes]

Any man’s death diminishes me,

because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know

for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

[+ Charlie]

T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land."

 

"April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

 

I used to be able to quote a lot more of it, but it goes on for another 400 some lines.

 

"Shantih. Shantih. Shantih."

Edited March 25, 2020 by Charlie

[+ g56whiz]

Any man’s death diminishes me,

because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know

for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne. No Man Is An Island.

[Poincare]

T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land."

 

"April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

 

I used to be able to quote a lot more of it, but it goes on for another 400 some lines.

 

"Shantih. Shantih. Shantih."

Nicely done. A true scholar among men.

[loremipsum]

T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land."

 

"April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

 

I used to be able to quote a lot more of it, but it goes on for another 400 some lines.

 

"Shantih. Shantih. Shantih."

 

I’m digging the enjambment.

[loremipsum]

Nicely done. A true scholar among men.

 

Primus inter pares

[+ g56whiz]

I’m digging the enjambment.

 

Enjambment: the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines.

 

And clever pun in the use of “digging” as well. Point, set and match @loremipsum.

[+ Charlie]

Nicely done. A true scholar among men.

Primus inter pares

Blush:oops:. Yes, I was a literary scholar, back in the days when Eliot was considered one of the greatest contemporary poets.