He is oppressed by a burden which he must bring to birth in order to obtain relief. Or, to change the figure of speech, he is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing;... Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art - Sida 17efter Ronald Schuchard - 1999 - 296 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Martin Scofield - 1988 - 280 sidor
...other people at all; only with finding the right words, or anyhow, the least wrong words . . . He is oppressed by a burden which he must bring to birth in order to obtain relief.'7 If some such process is, as 1 suggest, at the heart of Eliot's greatest poetry, then the... | |
| Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 sidor
...this suggestion even more clearly in Eliot's "Three Voices of Poetry." The poet, Eliot argues, "is oppressed by a burden which he must bring to birth...order to obtain relief. Or, to change the figure, he is haunted by a demon and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of form of exorcism of this demon"... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1998 - 260 sidor
...will ever listen to them or not, or whether anybody else will ever understand them if he does. He is oppressed by a burden which he must bring to birth in order to obtain relief. . . . and when the words are finally arranged in the right way — or in what he comes to accept as... | |
| Lyndall Gordon - 2000 - 760 sidor
...don't - but I see them: they are hunting me down . . .'). As late as 1953, Eliot spoke of the poet 'haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels...name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a form of exorcism of this demon'. All through these fraught years of Eliot's middle age he seems to... | |
| Robert Edward Duncan, Robert J. Bertholf, Albert Gelpi - 2004 - 906 sidor
...— this obscure impulse. He does not know what he has to say until he has said it ... He is oppressd by a burden which he must bring to birth in order to obtain relief. Or ... he is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless because in its first manifestations... | |
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