Lines for an Old Man
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
Primary Category:
Literature /
Poetry
Genre: Poem
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Annotated by:
- Coulehan, Jack
- Date of entry: Jan-17-1995
Summary
An old man speaks his anger, bitterness, and rage: "The tiger in the tiger pit / Is not more irritable than I." His "hissing over the arched tongue" is an experience "inaccessible by the young."
Primary Source
Collected Poems 1909-1962
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Place Published
New York
Edition
1964
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