#T S Elliot

[itsartistickiwi]

Sometimes I still think of how in Spider-Man 2 (2004) when Peter was talking to Otto and Rosie, Otto mentions how, while he's a brilliant physicist, he still can't understand T. S. Elliot's poetry. At the end of the film he chooses to drown in the river along with his creations. Now...

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." - T. S. Elliot

Was this intentional? Perhaps.

Perhaps.

Just makes me love the film that much more

-Image is an edited screenshot from the film-

#itsartistickiwi #spiderman 2 #spiderman #alfred molina #doc ock #doctor octopus #marvel #t s elliot #gosh i could ramble about this for too long #its just so good #poetry #movies #2004 had some peak cinema #octavius has a lot of parallels to Icarus too but thats a post for another day #rosie octavius #spiderverse #sam raimi

[importantpostchaos]

“You are the consciousness of your unhappy family. Its bird sent flying through the purgatorial flame.”

- T. S. Elliot, The Family Reunion

#t s elliot #identified patient #cptsd #family systems #theatre #childhood trauma #psychoanalysis

[dzgrizzle]

The Vampire and the Poet: After the Second World War, Christopher Lee was a server at St Stephen's Anglican Church in South Kensington, London, during T.S. Eliot's period as a parishioner there.

#christopher lee #t s elliot #poet #anglican

[everkid13]

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

#t s elliot #ts eliot #the hollow men

[deadfileinthecabinet]

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces

After the frosty silence in the gardens

After the agony in stony places

The shouting and the crying

Prison and palace and reverberation

Of thunder of spring over distant mountains

He who was living is now dead

We who were living are now dying

With a little patience

#some poem shit #fancy stuff #dying light 2 #aiden caldwell #dl2 #wasteland #T S Elliot #what the thunder said

[vishi-wish]

One of my favourite quotes

You are your best thing.

- Toni Morrison (Beloved)

#quotes #dearly beloved #toni morrison #dark academia #dark acadamia quotes #classic academia #academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #literature #american literature #kafka quotes #bookstagram #bookworld #edgar allan poe #t s elliot

[noelcollection]

Tree Lighting & Ceremonial events

This week marks the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on LSU Shreveport campus, while it is not common for Louisiana to see snow or skate on frozen lakes, we still celebrate the coming holiday season in many ways. Our campus hosts a large tree at the front center portion of the campus that greets late fall and winter visitors and the week before Thanksgiving and the Advent season we allow the community to gather to witness the lighting of the campus’ Christmas Tree. While some homes and businesses may have already begun to set-up pre-lit trees, garland, and wreaths; the LSU Shreveport campus waits until the autumn daylight savings to bring extra light to the campus. The annual tree lighting allows the local community, current students, alumni, and campus personnel to gather with hot drinks in hand and wait for the tree placed in front of campus to emit a soft white glow. The Christmas season is steeped in local and personal traditional that have been immortalized in print through text and illustrations. And for the students on our campus, the Tree Lighting marks the advent of the Thanksgiving break and final exams.

Besides being housed on LSU Shreveport’s campus, how can a ceremonial holiday tradition be tied to the James Smith Collection? For this we look to T.S. Eliot and his 1956 publication of The Cultivation of Christmas Trees which is a long poem contained in an illustrated 8-page volume. This particular publication of Eliot’s was a contribution to a series published by Faber & Faber Christmas pamphlets. Eliot’s poem deals with the need for childlike wonder in adulthood. There is no better subject to discuss childlike wonder for adults than Christmas. Even with all the holiday shopping stress, this can be something magical about fir trees decorated with colored ornaments and twinkle lights. The tradition of the Christmas tree originates from Germanic traditions, in the form that we are familiar with it, but the use and importance of evergreens in culture has been traced back to Egypt and Rome. The earlier uses of evergreens in homes during the winter season was to ward off illness, evil spirits, and the like. The Egyptian god Ra was celebrated during the solstice with green palm branches as Ra’s triumph over death. The Roman festival of Saturnalia for the god of agriculture used evergreen boughs to decorate homes and temples. Even the Celts and Vikings used evergreens to represent everlasting life.

It is 16th century Germany that is credited with the traditional Christmas tree. It rose from 16th century Christians that brought trees into their homes and decorated them during the winter solstice season. Some families would create wooden log pyramids and use evergreens to decorate them. Over time, candles would be added to the decorating style. So how did this tradition migrate from Germany to America? It was not as simple as families migrating from their native countries and bringing their traditions with them, it would seem that many American families found the Christmas tree to be strange in the 19th century. Though there were some seen in the 1830s with German settlers in Pennsylvania which can be traced through various Pennsylvania German settlements as early as 1747. This is because the Christmas tree was seen as a pagan symbol and was not commonly accepted by most early Americans. 

Though it is commonplace now, there was a period of dispute regarding the Christmas trees, carols, and joyful expressions which were voiced by Oliver Cromwell. The General Court of Massachusetts passed a law observing December 25th for only church service and would fine people for hanging decorations in 1659. This stern objection to seasonal decor stood through the 19th century until the increasing number of German and Irish immigrants brought new religious practices and traditions. However, with the influence of her German husband, Queen Victoria was sketched in the 1846 publication of the Illustrated London News with a Christmas tree. It would not be until the late 1800s that the use of ornaments from Germany and Christmas trees were gaining favor in the United States. While Europe favored smaller trees that were about 4 feet tall; the Americans preferred taller trees to adorn their homes.

As technology developed, so did the elaborations of the Christmas trees, the use of candles on limbs became strings of lights as electricity became commonplace. The early ornaments were homemade from natural materials such as apples, nuts, and marzipan cookies. Though this also changed to colored popcorn garland with berries and nuts. It was more than homes that Christmas trees would be centered in home during winter, but also town centers; the most famous being Rockefeller Center in New York which dates back to the Depression in 1931. However, the use of the Christmas tree has become a global phenomenon with its own local decorating traditions.

The Christmas tree can have many meanings for all people and communities beyond Christmas, for some it is a time of stress and stretched pockets and for others it is a chance to visit family. The use of evergreens during winter has spanned through various cultures throughout human history, though the most common is to represent a sense of immortality, a remembrance of life. 

Eliot, T. S. (1956). The cultivation of Christmas trees. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. https://bit.ly/3TvEYs0

Reitmeyer, R. (Ed.). (2009, October 27). History of Christmas trees. History.com. Retrieved November 17,             2022, from https://bit.ly/2FyMfGL

#rare books #special collections #t s elliot #christmas tree

[emerald-diaries]

She's a 10 but can't control her thoughts without writing them down.

#authors #writing #poetry #writers on tumblr #virginia woolf #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry #shakespeare #sarah j. maas #self care #poets on tumblr #thoughts #oscar wilde #t s elliot #love #trends #shesa10

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

T. S. Elliot

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[rosesandravens19]

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink." ~ T. S. Elliot

#quote #literature #writing #t s elliot

[interstellarsus]

#t s elliot

[itsokkomal]

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky❣️

#t s elliot #ts eliot #modern poetry

[chaoticenyo]

“Así es como termina el mundo, no con una explosión, sino con un lamento”

—T.S Eliot.

#t s Eliot #t s elliot #quotes

[amourduloup]

#the particular has no language #*lit #t. s. elliot #poetry

[mastersoftheair]

love how anthony basically said he doesn't have an iphone face. it's funny because i've seen people describe the mota main cast as dudes who look like they would ghost you on bumble which is funny but i think casting did pretty well (even if they don't look like their real life counterparts), what do you think?

as far as looking like their real-life counterparts, the cast ranges from Very Similar to That's A Whole Different Guy. when it comes to the main cast, raff law as ken lemmons and callum turner as bucky egan are close to the "Very Similar" end of this hbo war spectrum (tho no one's ever gonna be as Dead On as ron livingston's lewis nixon imo). on the other hand, the real life harry crosby was quite fair-haired (probably dark blond/light brunet) while anthony boyle is very much Not That.

also, iphone face is soooo subjective imo. i worked in an archive over the summer, handling old photographs ranging from the 1890s to the 1940s, and you wouldn't Believe how many people back then have that stereotypical "iphone face". to the point where they sometimes look out of place lol. (see: robert deniro as a kid). or, i'd see people who don't necessarily look "out of place", but they looked familiar enough that they'd probably blend right in today. so, to me, a lot of the cast members (barring more obvious outliers) blend in well enough. to me, at least!

anyway, check this guy out! (i nicknamed him 1910s barry keoghan while at the archives):

#the 'blending in' is probably a lot easier for male actors to do compared to female actors. consider the pressure to get cosmetic surgery #and that cosmetic surgery is gonna make you look Off if you're in a production set in the 19th century #one of the outliers (to me!) is austin butler. he fits the 60s at the earliest. or 50s. elvis has no bearing on this #ben radcliffe also looks really 'modern' and idk why #on the other extreme tho is ed ashley. that's a face that looks 'too old' for the 1940s even. 19th century material and nothing later lol #most of the dudes look fine tho. despite the overabundance of mustaches #and then the elliot(t)s have a face that fit the 40s. but yeahhh it's all subjective #masters of the air #hbo war #asks

[eoinmcgonigal]

Re: your french guy post, i think that paddy was actually impressed that augustin DIDN'T play russian roulette with him and instead pushed back against it. He was still sad about epon's death but he recognised there was somethijg similar in augustin. There's no way that eoin would have played russian roullete with paddy or even let him do it. Augustin getting mad at him about it was probably kinda.... not nice, but sort of impressive or reassuring? Here was this guy who was unafraid to tell paddy (a man with a reputation for being rabid and dangerous) that he was being a fucking dumbass and that he should stop. After eoin died there was no one to hold paddy's leash and pull the dog back so that the poet could come to the surface again. By talking poetry with him and then showing that he was ready and willing to fight paddy over stupid decisions, augustin was showing that he was entirely capable of being that leash.

Idk if all that makes sense i just woke up

Oh yeah that makes sense, I see that scene as profoundly sad from a Paddy/Eoin point of view, as I've not got round to Paddy/Augustin yet (I've taken a slight detour into Johnny/Reg and Johnny/Bill that's taking longer than expected). I use the same details to lead to different 'conclusions' all the time so it's way more fun when there are different ways to look at something - thank you for sending me this because I really haven't meandered/looked at it that way yet!

#i made that post while watching the 't s elliot is dull' bit which is funny #i too have just woken up and it's the 2nd and there are EMAILS it's horrific #i'm too in pain to type out how i think eoin would have responded #i guess it's bc i think about how irl eoin pointed a gun at paddy and threatened to shoot him when he was out of control #i wanna watch this bit again #time to restart the whole show i guess XD