T. S. Eliot‘s ”Gerontion”

A pre-conversion work of Eliot, "Gerontion" expresses the same world-weary disillusionment of The Wasteland and "The Hollow Men," but from a much more personal perspective. The title means "little old man," and the poem was written in 1919 when the treaty of Versailles was signed, ending WWI. Like all of Eliot's poetry, it is difficult to nail down due to its learned allusions, imagery and language. It is, however, much more intuitively grasped than The Wasteland.

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