Between the Idea & The Reality: TS ELIOT, the words information, the mystery of tone

Here is the famous T.S. Eliot poem, The Hollow Men. There is rain at dawn, and some birds. And one might pause over how the same words hold between poets, across continents, at different time periods; the rose in Eliot and the rose in Rilke, the tone of a Franz Wright rose and the tone […]