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	Poetry X » Poetry Archives » T. S. Eliot » "Gerontion"
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	On "Gerontion"
		Gerontion has already described himself as "an old man in a draughty house," and his "house" of history has its corridors and passages and issues.
		Unlike Eliot, the speaker of "Gerontion" does not understand that his knowledge of history is his own "ideal construction," and that a vision of historical chaos is a product of the mind that cannot unify the present and the past.
		The relatively disjointed quality of both "Prufrock" and "Gerontion," especially the lack of good continuity between the verse paragraphs, makes it hard to ascribe the language to a speaker, even one who is in the kind of extreme situation mentally or physically that is sometimes portrayed in dramatic monologues.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/eliot/gerontion.htm (2913 words)

	The aging process: a literary perspective - The World and I Magazine
		The name Gerontion suggests, of course, a little old man, but it also reflects the alienation, frustration, and general futility of a generation unmoored from its aspirations and traditional values.
		It must be emphasized, however, that the weariness and hopelessness in Eliot's "Gerontion" are not the result of one individual's senescence but are the hallmark of any age-group that has lost its sense of direction and purpose.
		Gerontion thus is a symbol of spiritual rather than physical decay.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1995/march/ar2.cfm (3436 words)

	LIDIA VIANU - T.S. Eliot - An author for all seasons \| Poetry - Gerontion
		The images of this first stanza of Gerontion are, then, rather suggestive of, than equal to a certain explainable, definable or definite meaning.
		What Gerontion really speaks of is his own, his mortal condition, which he has to go through alone.
		Gerontion argues with someone who has pushed him away, with somebody absent from the poem, as a matter of fact.
	www.e-scoala.ro /desperado/ts_eliot_gerontion.html (2743 words)

	T.S. Elliot/"Gerontion" Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The speaker of this dramatic monologue is an old man sitting inside a “decayed house.” The reference to knowledge invokes the original sin of Adam and Eve, signifying that the man (or society as a whole) has disobeyed God.
		By deleting “Nature” in “Gerontion” and replacing it with “History,” he establishes the new direction his poetry is taking him.
		In the manuscript version of "Gerontion," the old man is abandoned by nature, leaving him in his barren state.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~siloh/homepage/essay7.html (1540 words)

	NOW Magazine, MARCH 9 - 15, 2006
		That opportunity comes through a series of stories Gerontion tells about his past, notably episodes between his military younger self and his partner, Marie, who still haunts him.
		Gerontion's dry humour and tentative parenting contrast nicely with the boy's impetuous desires and search for the truth about his own history.
		The tonal transformations are most subtle and effective in the scenes with the proud Young Gerontion (Peter Farbridge) and the intriguing, sensual Marie (Stavroula Logothettis).
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2006-03-09/stage_theatrereviews4_p.html (438 words)

	Amazon.com: Gerontion: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion": A study in thematic repetition and development (Texas studies in English) by Mervyn W Williamson (Unknown Binding - 1957)
		Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were...
		Eliot's The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Gerontion.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Gerontion&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (731 words)

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		Gerontion lives in a "draughty house;" in the modern age of secularism, his house or mythical framework has no substance except the time and tide of nature.
		Gerontion is a transtemporally archetypal person who comes out of an up-bringing, so to speak, in a Christian world, only to approach old age in a world that, like the Pharisees, demands a sign, or a mythical context.
		Drew comments: "[Gerontion] is not a whole man, symbolic of a civilization ministering to body, mind and spirit.
	web.mit.edu /mharvey/www/HPP/eliot.htm (5847 words)

	Eliot's poetry of Breakdown -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		The poem ‘Gerontion’ is very similar to ‘The love song of J Alfred Prufrock’ as is also portrays an old man and the reality of the world his living in.
		He is also meditating on the past and too is disappointed in him self to not have achieved any Heroic deeds, which he could later pass on through communication to his descendants.
		Yet it is more present in ‘Gerontion’ when showing the lack of communication and the inability to form relationships and the decay of true beauty.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/623 (1234 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the light of Biblical point of view, there was no rain though the hero, "Gerontion" of Eliot's poem waited for rain with a desire to receive the salvation.
		This paper also shows "Gerontion," the hero as well as the title of this poem, reached the state of enlightenment by wisdom in the bright expression of "white feathers in the snow" this implies enlightenment of the world.
		The fourth chapter of that concluded that Eliot adapted the fact that idealistic monism and monadism are not different from the unified concept of Indo-European Language reflected in "Gerontion".
	myhome.naver.com /homeschool/a/abstract.htm (509 words)

	Melic Review Spring. Summer 2003 C.E. Chaffin
		After “Gerontion,” Eliot takes a metaphysical, formal turn in Poems, as the seven remaining poems (excepting those in French) are written in tight quatrains, with compressed diction and that unequal yoking of disparate metaphors by which Samuel Johnson first condemned the Metaphysical Poets, whom Eliot rehabilitated.
		The only major difference of “Gerontion” from its predecessors is not style or technique, simply the age of the voice.
		In “Gerontion” we saw how Eliot seemed more comfortable in the body of an old man than in his own, and imagining the decay of physical senses may have eased Eliot’s sense of bodily separation.
	www.melicreview.com /archive/iss21/cechaffin.html (6380 words)

	On "The Journey of the Magi"
		Like Gerontion, he cannot break loose from the past.
		Whereas Gerontion is "waiting for rain" in this life, and the hollow men desire the "eyes" in the next life, the speaker here has put behind him both the life of the senses and the affirmative symbol of the Child; he has reached the state of desiring nothing.
		His negation is partly ignorant, for he does not understand in what way the Birth is a Death; he is not aware of the sacrifice.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/eliot/magi.htm (1245 words)

	What T.S. Eliot Almost Believed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And when poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries wanted to express their increasing discomfort with modern times they found the contrast an obvious trope.
		In "Gerontion," however, the poet begins to link the allusions with one another and thereby to give them a life of their own.
		The richness of the past becomes as important as the poverty of the present; indeed, the reality of the past begins to be the fullest indictment of the present-an indictment that the poet begins to realize he himself does not escape.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9508/bottum.html (4127 words)

	Waste Land and Other Poems - PowerBookSearch!
		To have these poems in a single volume that costs roughly the price of a candy bar is nothing less than a miracle.
		Includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Sweeney Amoung the Nightingales," and other important poems from the author's early and middle periods.
		This volume includes the title poem as well as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Ash Wednesday," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0451526848.html (623 words)

	Second Balcony: Against 'Ys' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She had this whole Howl, oracle-with-a-wicked-smile-and-a-nudge thing going on for her, and she didn't so much trade it in for something new as lose the wicked smile and the nudge.
		Not the finest example perhaps since Gerontion is playful and full of surprises and rather more scathingly funny than 'Prufrock And..' in its own cold cold dead-inside way, but you know what I mean:
		It's those artists who manage somehow to go from X to "The Later X" between their debut and sophomore.
	secondbalcony.blogspot.com /2006/10/against-ys.html (308 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The last encounter I had with Eliot was my Senior year in high school when we read “The Hollow Men” and Wasteland.
		His imagery is powerful in its own way, but it is just vague enough that I can’t get a good mental picture of what’s going on in the poem inside my head.
		I felt better when I read that: “Both poems pose a problem to anyone anxious to find literal meaningbut the question of literal meaning is left further behind in ‘Gerontion’” (113).
	virtual.clemson.edu /groups/dial/t&vseminar/reportsex/erin1.doc (537 words)

	Ask Scott Archive May-August 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The old man in Gerontion is spiritually barren in old age, as was J. Alfred Prufrock; he's Nietzschean in that his impulse is to lay the failure of his philosophically-based individualism at the doorstep of Christ, and by extension, the Judaic tradition.
		What Christ the tiger attacks is the viability of a primitive or classical hero system in which the Gerontion character feels he might have thrived, hence the bemoaning of his absence from any battle scene ("heaving a cutlass," etc.).
		Whether it is ouster in combat or ouster in debate, Christ the glorified victim has thrown light on the victimization--the necessity by definition for there to be an ousted party--inherent in any such quest for one's authentication.
	www.loudfamily.com /archive98b.html (7129 words)

	Epigraf: Gerontion - Thomas Stearns Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
		Gerontion, Thomas Stearns Eliot (Şiir - Tam Alıntı) [207 kez ziyaret edildi.]
		Gerontion - Thomas Stearns Eliot / T.S. Eliot'in 'Gerontion' siiri
	epigraf.fisek.com.tr /index.php?num=310 (292 words)

	Explanations: Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
		Brunillion gave a very detailed explanation of the genus of the title: [The poet T.S. Elliot coined the phrase in his poem Gerontion.
		Still, I don't think Fish used Gerontion as the source for his song.
		Its landscape is 'a wilderness of mirrors,' a phrase from Eliot's 'Gerontion' that Angleton quoted frequently.'
	marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk /FishSolo/Albums/Vigil/Vigil.htm (545 words)

	wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I think that this is an error and that if a theory of character should emerge, it will necessarily account for - go to the heart of - all instances of character, symbolic, allegorical, naturalistic, whether in the novel, in epic, in romance, in drama, or in lyric.
		"By any inclusive definition of the term, Gerontion can be a character; yet he is at once less and more."
		Such a statement can be correct only if it masks "less and more than a character in a novel."
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/date/v1-v19/v2n1.wilson.html (395 words)

	Amazon.com: A casebook on Gerontion (The Merrill literary casebook series): Books: T. S Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amazon.com: A casebook on Gerontion (The Merrill literary casebook series): Books: T. S Eliot
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		A casebook on Gerontion (The Merrill literary casebook series) (Unknown Binding)
	www.amazon.com /casebook-Gerontion-Merrill-literary/dp/067509318X (414 words)

	Southam (1978) T. S. Eliot, "Prufrock", "Gerontion", Ash Wednesday and other shorter poems: A casebook
		Southam (1978) T. Eliot, "Prufrock", "Gerontion", Ash Wednesday and other shorter poems: A casebook
		Eliot, "Prufrock", "Gerontion", Ash Wednesday and other shorter poems: A casebook
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	Free Term Papers on Gerontion by T.S. Eliot
		Free Term Papers on Gerontion by T.S. Eliot
		"Gerontion" is about the thoughts of an old man looking back on life.
		The poem starts of by saying how Gerontion is an "old man in a dry month waiting for rain"(1,2) Since rain is a symbol of fertility or rebirth, the old man seems to be waiting for his next life.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/352.html (148 words)

	T S Eliot's poem: Gerontion
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		But as it were an after dinner sleep
		Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
	www.readbookonline.net /readOnLine/3177 (273 words)

	Find in a Library: A casebook on Gerontion.
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	The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot - Penguin Group (USA)
		The Wast Land is a modernist literary masterpiece.
		Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales.
		T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets.
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	TIME.com: T. S. ELIOT: He knew the anguish of the marrow, the ague of the skeleton -- Jan. 15, 1965 -- Page 2
		Prufrock was soon followed by other poems, each one lighting up the postwar literary battlefields like a Very light high above the trenches.
		Gerontion, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, The Hollow Men, half a dozen others—by 1925, Eliot had already published most of the poems on which his fame is based.
		Longest and most important was, of course, The Waste Land, beginning with the immortal:
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,941909-2,00.html (756 words)

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