A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 5-7)
In my previous two posts, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the li...
Tag: T.S. Eliot
“The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot–A Reading and Explanation
Last year, I did a blog series in which I did readings of various T.S. Eliot poems, in which I also provided brief explanations and analyses of those poems. For...
T.S. Eliot: “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”
Rhapsody on a Windy Night has always been one of my favorite poems by T.S. Eliot. In many ways, it is one of the easiest to read and understand. As the title su...
T.S. Eliot: “Portrait of a Lady” (Some thoughts…and a Reading)
T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1917, in Eliot’s book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is about guilt and broken...
T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Some thoughts…and a reading)
It really says something about how difficult T.S. Eliot’s poetry can be when the one, if not only, poem almost every high school English Literature curriculum h...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Little Gidding
Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Written in 1942, it essentially signaled the end of Eliot’s public career as a poet. ...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: The Dry Salvages
Dry Salvages is the third poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. It is the only poem of the Four Quartets that includes an introductory note to tell us that the Dr...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: East Coker
East Coker is the second poem in T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, Four Quartets. East Coker is the actual village in Somersetshire, England from which Eliot’s ancestor...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Burnt Norton
I’m going to start this year’s edition of Resurrecting Orthodoxy a little differently. Instead of a book analysis, or something about YECism, or a Biblical Stud...
Crossing the Jordan (Part 5): A Book Review of Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”–Self-Respect, Adam and Eve, and the Burden of Responsibility
In his book, 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson’s second rule is, “Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.” Basically, it means you should ...