The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124276   Message #2744015
Posted By: theleveller
12-Oct-09 - 07:20 AM
Thread Name: TS Eliot named the nation's favourite poet
Subject: RE: TS Eliot named the nation's favourite poet
The cat poems are maybe what makes Eliot so popular, but it's this sort of think that makes him a really great poet:

Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart's heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.


On the whole, though, I prefer Donne.