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    Please, who helpth me not, I 4give him

    I have this beautiful poem by T. S. Eliot. what I ask you best forum's members ever is to discuss it, and in which age it was written (abuot its age characteristics) and the poet biography. Plea, help your newly arrived member. this is the poem
    Hysteria
    BY T. S. ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT)

    As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved
    in her laughter and being part of it, until her
    teeth were only accidental stars with a talent
    for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps,
    inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally
    in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by
    the ripple of unseen muscles. An elderly waiter
    with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading
    a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
    green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
    gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden,
    if the lady and gentleman wish to take their
    tea in the garden ..." I decided that if the
    shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of
    the fragments of the afternoon might be collected,
    and I concentrated my attention with careful
    subtlety to this end.
    Oh Fair Portia,


    PLEASE, LET ME CHOOSE THE LEADEN CASCKET

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    Question Please, help it is an urgent call

    who helpth me not, I'll 4give him... who helpth me but, I'll never 4get him
    I have this beautiful poem by T. S. Eliot. what I ask you best forum's members ever is to discuss and criticise it, and in which age it was written (abuot its age characteristics) and the poet biography. Plea, help your newly arrived member. this is the poem


    Hysteria BY T. S. ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT)

    As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved
    in her laughter and being part of it, until her
    teeth were only accidental stars with a talent
    for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps,
    inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally
    in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by
    the ripple of unseen muscles. An elderly waiter
    with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading
    a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
    green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
    gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden,
    if the lady and gentleman wish to take their
    tea in the garden ..." I decided that if the
    shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of
    the fragments of the afternoon might be collected,
    and I concentrated my attention with careful
    subtlety to this end.
    Oh Fair Portia,


    PLEASE, LET ME CHOOSE THE LEADEN CASCKET

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    It feels like it's an assignment you have to do and what us to do it for you?

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    dear lover friend, Etienne a member of this forum, I admire your notice. BUT what it has to do with your lovely bussiness. Unless you can help, you have not to post your light comments. I am waiting for your help and the others'. but you know what, you got me dear.
    Oh Fair Portia,


    PLEASE, LET ME CHOOSE THE LEADEN CASCKET

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    Quote Originally Posted by hakeem View Post
    dear lover friend, Etienne a member of this forum, I admire your notice. BUT what it has to do with your lovely bussiness. Unless you can help, you have not to post your light comments. I am waiting for your help and the others'. but you know what, you got me dear.
    What it has to do is that we are not here to do your homeworks. Go search for your informations instead of being lazy.

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    good good good, Etienne
    if you do not know my assignment is two-week range, one week past I was searching, the deadline on Wednesday the 28th. I am in need do not think negative of me dear. our professor is tough. I still wait your own and the others' help or even guidlines.
    Oh Fair Portia,


    PLEASE, LET ME CHOOSE THE LEADEN CASCKET

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    i think ya might be waiting...

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    thanx Mark and Etienne, if you do not know, you are now helping me. you gave me solutions and motives. thanx (muchas gracias). still await, where are you Virgil.
    Last edited by hakeem; 11-22-2007 at 07:08 PM.
    Oh Fair Portia,


    PLEASE, LET ME CHOOSE THE LEADEN CASCKET

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    I think it's safe to respond now... Perhaps....

    I just wanted to note something that is essentially very simple, but I thought
    it to be worth sharing the observation. Anyone who possess the Faber and
    Faber copy of Eliot's collected poems may observe that in its presentation
    the word 'accidental' is excised in two - one part of the word is at the very right of
    the page, the other part at the very left. Or, if you like, we could say it was the
    poet's use of enjambment. At any rate, we see something like this:

    ...Until her teeth were only acci-
    dental stars with a talent for squad-rill.


    Note the 'dental'. This could have been consciously deliberated by Eliot, or, perhaps,
    acci-dental... But I found it quite ingenious, that division of the word at such an
    apt place, while the rest of the poem maintains its structure.


    The Ol' Man.

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