...bruised, As the mind deserts the body it has used. I should find Some way incomparably light and deft, Some way we both should understand, Simple and faithless...how they should have been together ! I should have a lost a gesture and a pose. Sometimes these cogitations still amaze The troubled midnight and the...

...bruised, As the mind deserts the body it has used. I should find Some way incomparably light and deft, Some way we both should understand, Simple and faithless...flowers. And I wonder how they should have been together ! 62 I should have lost a gesture and a pose. Sometimes these cogitations still amaze The troubled...

...bruised, As the mind deserts the body it has used. I should find Some way incomparably light and deft, Some way we both should understand, Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand. Such a passage is not typical of Mr Eliot, and yet I felt it to be typical of something. In its simplicity,...

...always in search of rhythmical invention, writes a stanza containing in the middle such a line as : Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers, and at the end: Sometimes these cogitations still amaze The troubled midnight and the noon's repose. This...

...in the arm' does not have the pulsing insistence of feeling of earlier experiences, of the rhythm of 'Compelled my imagination many days, many days and...Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers' or the passion of 'My friend, blood shaking my heart', but a quieter more telling pulse, 'less strong...

...in "La Figlia Che Piange" bemoans the fact that art requires choice in the "direction" of the scene: "I wonder how they should have been together!/ I should have lost a gesture and a pose."8 The speaker is not only aware of his/her role as a director, but also directs the reader to...

...bruised, As the mind deserts the body it has used. I should find Some way incomparably light and deft, Some way we both should understand, Simple and faithless...hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers. And 1 wonder how they should have been together! 1 should have lost a gesture and a pose. Sometimes these...

...fact, illustrate how the past impinges on the present, how it creates the present moment. The lines "And I wonder how they should have been together / I should have lost a gesture and a pose" also indicate how the past action, the lovers' meeting, impinges on a future action, the "I" 's image-making....

...his purpose. Can he relinquish her memory as the lover of La Figlia had done so many years before? She turned away, but with the autumn weather Compelled my imagination many days. It is Eliot's private trial to repeat this scene, resigning love again and yet again, till it becomes...

...idealized, and we may have seen evidence of the process in "La Figlia Che Piange," in the girl who "turned away, but with the autumn weather / Compelled my imagination many days," and in the similar figure of the hyacinth girl, in whose presence the persona has a visionary moment,...