In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown. Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness. There is no life in them. As I am forgotten. Thus devoted, concentrated in …

The poem ends with a prayer for mercy and forgiveness, suggesting a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness. Overall, "Ash Wednesday" is a complex and challenging poem that reflects the …

Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash-Wednesday) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot during his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, the poem deals with the struggle that …

Ash Wednesday’ by T. S. Eliot is a complex, six-part poem concerned with a speaker’s hope for human salvation in a faithless world. The poem takes the reader through stages in a speaker’s …

Eliot’s reflections on Ash Wednesday. An edited selection of the contemporary reviews, English and American. I. Because I do not hope to turn again. II. Lady, three white leopards sat under …

ASH WEDNESDAY (1930) T.S. ELIOT Because I do not hope to turn again Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope Because I know that time is always time And place is always and …

In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown. Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness. There is no life in them. As I am forgotten. Thus devoted, concentrated in …

May 2, 2015 · In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown. Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness. There is no life in them. As I am forgotten. Thus devoted, concentrated …

Ash-Wednesday (note the hyphen) is perhaps, of all Eliot’s poems, the most heavily indebted to Dante. Eliot would write more essays on Dante than on any other poet, and the importance of …

T. S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday” has been described by poet Edwin Muir as “one of the most moving poems he [Eliot] has written, and perhaps the most perfect.” It is Eliot’s… Read More....