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" Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. I was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought. "
The Great War and the Language of Modernism - Página 13
de Vincent Sherry - 2003 - 416 páginas
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Poems

Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1920 - 72 páginas
...POEMS Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both, Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to...the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought. My house is a decayed house, And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned in some...
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Before the Bombardment

Osbert Sitwell - 1926 - 360 páginas
...and why had they no friends? Newborough was intent on an answer. CHAPTER II THE DAWN OF FRIENDSHIP "Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting jor rain." EVEN when Miss Collier-Floodgaye first came to Newborough, she appeared to be in failing...
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Modern American Poets

Conrad Aiken - 1927 - 394 páginas
.... • GERONTION Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to...the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought. My house is a decayed house, And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned in some...
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The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the ...

Granville Hicks - 1935 - 364 páginas
...the waste land. Sardonically he mocked his own weaknesses. He confessed his futility in "Gerontion": Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. He had accomplished nothing: / was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain Nor l.nee deep...
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Before the Bombardment

Osbert Sitwell - 1926 - 356 páginas
...and why had they no friends? Newborough was intent on an answer. CHAPTER II THE DAWN OF FRIENDSHIP "Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain." EVEN when Miss Collier-Floodgaye first came to Newborough, she appeared to be in failing health. Old,...
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War Department Education Manual, Número 131,Parte 1

United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 742 páginas
...serious?" GERONTION Thou hast nor youth nor age Bat as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to...the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought. My house is a decayed house, And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned in some...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...men. The sea has many voices. Many gods and many voices. AiP; LiTB; NoP; OxBA; SeCePo Gerontion 30 aPON; FPL; OBCA; OxBChV Maud Muller 15 Maud Muller on a summer's day Raked the (1. 1—2) 31 In the juvescence of the year Came Christ the tiger (1. 19-20) 32 After such knowledge,...
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Masken der Moderne: literarische Selbststilisierung bei T.S. Eliot, Ezra ...

Christoph Irmscher - 1992 - 414 páginas
...sondern zu viel" geliebt hat (V.ii.340), blickt das Ich in "Gerontion" auf ein ungelebtes Leben zurück: "I was neither at the hot gates/ Nor fought in the warm rain ..." (Z. 3 f.). Othellos Selbstmord steht unmittelbar bevor; Gerontion hingegen, obwohl seine Welt...
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Finding the Place: Selected Essays on English Literature

Kees Fens - 1994 - 216 páginas
...with which 'Journey of the Magi' on first sight has so much in common. He introduces himself with: Here I am, an old man in a dry month. Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. And his house and all that surrounds him is of a piece with Gerontion's own decay and old age. The...
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The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry

Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 páginas
...drown. GERONTION Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to...the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought. My house is a decayed house, And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned in some...
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