Poetry Thursday: T.S. Eliot

[@rebeccath1980]

He was one of my grandfather’s favorite poets. Thank you for sharing. I’m sick with Covid and watching your videos today has been a comfort.

[@cararook]

Poetry out loud is such a joy- thank you for sharing! I closed my eyes and listened along.

[@jonathanbrewer7072]

TS Eliot crossed the pond in 1916. He taught the future poet laureate John Betjeman at a London school. Thanks, Robert. Cracking closing line.

[@kevintowle9665]

Nicely done Bob. Eliot has one of my favorite quotes ever: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” Happy Thursday!

[@jaye6446]

Thanks so much for sharing that excerpt ☺️. I started this year with a strong feeling of anxiety for all the things I didn’t get to check off the to-do list in the last week of 2024, but this served as a great reminder that I could reframe it as starting off 2025 by finishing off those tasks - accomplishment rather than failure - and even if not immediately, there’s always still time 😊 Happy new year and I look forward to seeing your reading journey in 2025!

[@BobJacobs10]

Eliot was such a good poet. The Hollow Men and The Waste Land are among my favourite texts ever written.

[@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p]

Especially "The Waste Land", yes.

[@Readatrix]

That's lovely. Thank you. Perhaps I'm uninspired in professing my favorite is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Who can't relate to the thought of a life measured out in coffee spoons? The mundanity, but also the domesticity, and always time inching forward.

[@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p]

"Prufrock" is powerful and worthy of all the praise it receives.

[@jonathanbrewer7072]

Man cannot endure very much reality.

[@Sandra-hc4vo]