 What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry...  The Double Dealer - Page 1741923Full view - About this book
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Social sciences - 1924 - 880 pages
...cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights — just as beauty and pathos are undeniable in . . . Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know...only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, 11 And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1926 - 746 pages
...we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read much of the night and go south in the winter. What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow...of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead trees give no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water.* This passage is... | |
 | American periodicals - 1926 - 748 pages
...the penny world I bought To eat with Pipit behind the screen? Where are the eagles and the trumpets?" 'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? ' 'What shall we do to-morrow? What shall we ever do? The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed... | |
 | Edwin Muir - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 240 pages
...penny world I bought To eat with Pipit behind the screen? . . . Where are the eagles and the trumpets? What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? What shall we do to-morrow? What shall we ever do? The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1927 - 180 pages
...discouragement, and a trick of manner by which we hope to carry off and disguise the emptiness beneath : " What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow...cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show... | |
 | Sherard Vines - Criticism - 1927 - 386 pages
...reconnoitring the reentrants of minor verse. AL Morton rather awkwardly attempts the thing : — " A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter " My mind is over-run with things I see : Would make them symbols.* * from The Decachord, a poetry... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1928 - 236 pages
...say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead trees give no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water.2 This passage is representative of much of the style of the poem, where Eliot apparently presents... | |
 | Marc Manganaro - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 243 pages
...culture," a "waste land" in which culture is rendered unregenerate, a literalized topography of culture "where the sun beats, / And the dead tree gives no...cricket no relief, / And the dry stone no sound of water."16 Again the dissociation of modern labor is signified — "at the violet hour, when the eyes... | |
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Joseph Kerwin - 2002 - 434 pages
...(pbk) ISBN: 0-595-65053-8 (cloth) Printed in the United States of America for Regan my ideal reader "What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish?" —TS Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922 CHAPTER 1 fj f enry died on a Thursday. I didn't know he was dead... | |
 | Sandra Djwa - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 510 pages
...and that the smaller figure was his alter ego. The sketch is accompanied with a few lines from Eliot: 'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish? ...'61 It is this visual structure - transformed into poetry - that Daniells' sonnet sequence offers.... | |
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