Tinnitus

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



Merely A Poem

Alone but for the involuntary
Company of tinnitus,
the ghost of a wall, floor, ceiling,
Once again a silence dividing
The drowned and the stranded.
Behind only brutal hope: The thousand humiliations
Of a world expected, taken for granted:
A love that’s merely a poem?

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A kind self-hatred

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Submitted by lewis.deane on October 14, 2021

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A XBCCDBDA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 275
Words 48
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 8

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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