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Comment 4 of 14, added on July 18th, 2005 at 3:46 PM.
Eliot is speaking about the House of Judah.
Jay G from United States
Comment 3 of 14, added on November 29th, 2004 at 1:24 PM.
This poem can be easily understood if you can Decipher the many literary
references in the poem. If you can't the the whole thing just appears to be
a great big load of nonsense! The key to understanding this poem, is in the
last two lines, "tenants of the house, thoughts of a dry brain in a dry
season" which could mean two things A) "tenants" being those who inhabit
the house along with Gerontium, such as the foreigners, eg "madame de
tornquist"
OR
B) "tenants" are the thoughts in gerontium's head, therefore explaining the
way he is looking back on his life, rather depressed.
I prefer option B myself!
Loz from United States
Comment 2 of 14, added on September 28th, 2004 at 1:40 PM.
His poems are deep in thought and contains things that most people my age
and probubly older don't quite understand. The concepts aren't clear but
maybe it's just me!
Do not reccomened to young people1
Whitneyvanderbloemen from United States
Comment 1 of 14, added on September 8th, 2004 at 8:15 AM.
Apart from this is an old guy who rents a house from a landlord he doesn't
care for, and it's mutual, and getting old is for the birds, I do not get
what this is about. That's disappointing, because I came here to figure
out why at least two books are called "After such knowledge", and whether I
could use the quotation myself. I don't get it - is the whole thing an
extended speech of Foul Ole Ron's?
Robert Carnegie
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Eliot is speaking about the House of Judah.
Jay G from United States