...with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone." or these, from the Waste Land: "My friend, blood shaking my heart, The awful daring...surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract." But the "cynicism," the self-mockery of poems such as Prufrock is equally notable. It is more difficult...

...distant, over Himavant. The jungle crouched, humped in silence. Then spoke the thunder 400 DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart...never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under...

...distant, over Himavant. The jungle crouched, humped in silence. Then spoke the thunder 400 DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart...never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under...

...(Oxford, 1930), p. xx. 14 The Waste Lana: A facsimile, p. 29. music be? I'th'air or th'earth?'). But 'The awful daring of a moment's surrender / Which an age of prudence can never retract' is followed by no sign of the possibility of redemption or atonement, unlike Prospero's initial surrender...

...no one. (1. 389—391) 152 Then spoke the thunder Da Datta: what have we given? (I. 400—402) 153 The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract (1. 404^»05) 154 Only at nightfall, aethereal rumours Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus (1....

...lohn Murray (published ¡n Byron'i Letten and ¡oumals. vol. 9, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand, 1979). 2 TS ELIOT (1888-1965). Anglo-American poet, critic. The Wasteland, pi. 5, 'What the Thunder Said' (1922)....

...the reader in the address to "my friend" and the use of the first person plural words "we" and "our": what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart...never retract By this, and this only, we have existed (v, lines 402-6) The surrender to desire, to the shaking heart, is life, not the safety of prudence...

...far distant, over Himavant. The jungle crouched, humped in silence. Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart...never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under...

...sacrifices. In the basal text in response to the command of the thunder, Eliot's speaker ruminates: Datta\ what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart...surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract. (The Waste Land, V. 401-5) With respect to the inhabitants of the Arab wasteland, the speaker charges...

...lines that follow the imperative "Datta": The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age or prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. . . . Crane's echo, at once violently explicit and curiously tacit, speaks of sifting One moment in...