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Hannah Arandt

T.S Eliot 1888 (St. Louis) – 1965 (Kensington)

Free verse
To Hannah Arrant

O, Hannah, there is always this:
Between the past and the future
There is this: dead? No, but
Wanting this ‘past’, always hoping
(‘Killed by hope’) for merely a summer:
A field, a forest, the wilder, wilder flowers.

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About how terror enters your heart and kills you.

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Submitted by lewis.deane on October 14, 2021

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X XAXXAX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 234
Words 41
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 6
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T.S Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. more…

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