350: excerpt from "The Wasteland"

[exceptindreams]

Excerpt from “The Wasteland”
T.S. Eliot

"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;"
"They called me the hyacinth girl."
--Yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

Comments

[amadareneko]

sie riefen mich das Hyazinthemadchen

I love this poem (and this poet) so much.

[tangled_kisses]

what a lovely image fills my mind when i read this. <3

[__vanillaskies]

very beautiful

[seekingferret]

Like the rest of The Waste Land, I have no clue what it means.

[toronja]

hahahaha, well said!

[magnificentmagi]

Agreed. You sort of need to know - what? - three or four different languages and a bunch about the period during which he wrote it, not to mention a familiarity with The Book of Common Prayer to even get a hint of the "meaning" behind The Wasteland.

That said, I still totally don't.

[ipsius]

T.S. Eliot owns part of my soul. ♥