Friday, January 3, 2003

Chard Whitlow Comments

Rating: 2.9

(Mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)

As we get older we do not get any younger.
Seasons return, and to-day I am fifty-five,
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Tim Whittingham 22 May 2019

It's a wonderful poem! As a parody of Eliot it doesn't quite work - he doesn't quite have the measure of Eliot but it's still funny and moving and a little bit scary all at once, which is saying something!

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Clive Granger 01 September 2018

very clever and funny-is it a place?

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