A Mind Still Split between the Sceptic and the Absolute: ‘I’ and Conjunctions as Linguistic Registers in “Ash-Wednesday”
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Eliot’s yearning for the absolute had been prominent from the very beginning even before his earnest indulgence into religion after the 1927 conversion. His “turning” from philosophy to poetry, his theory of impersonal poetry, and his argument of the ‘not-conscious’ are signs of a mind ever craving for the absolute—romantic, idealistic, and ultimately religious in a Dantean sense—against any logic or tradition of scepticism. “Ash-Wednesday,” whose positive connotations of religion for redemption distinguish it from the previous poems. However it is still not so much a poem of the absolute than a poem of the mind which is still split and struggling between the sceptic and the religious, registered in the poet’s use of the first person pronoun ‘I’ and conjunctions.
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Eliot’s yearning for the absolute had been prominent from the very beginning even before his earnest indulgence into religion after the 1927 conversion. His “turning” from philosophy to poetry, his theory of impersonal poetry, and his argument of the ‘not-conscious’ are signs of a mind ever craving for the absolute—romantic, idealistic, and ultimately religious in a Dantean sense—against any logic or tradition of scepticism. “Ash-Wednesday,” whose positive connotations of religion for redemption distinguish it from the previous poems. However it is still not so much a poem of the absolute than a poem of the mind which is still split and struggling between the sceptic and the religious, registered in the poet’s use of the first person pronoun ‘I’ and conjunctions.
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