Thursday, May 17, 2001
Gerontion Comments
Rating: ★3.7
Thou hast nor youth nor age
But as it were an after dinner sleep
Dreaming of both.
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7/26/2025 4:40:14 AM # 1.0.0
One has to seize upon the closing line. Having done so, '...a dry brain' in ANY season is a dead brain. Thus, all that precedes the final line must be that which drove the author to his symbolic death. Typical for T.S. Eliot, I think.