 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1971 - 408 pages
...an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. And what the dead had no speech for, when living,...tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. Here, the intersection of the timeless moment Is England and nowhere. Never and always. II Ash on an... | |
 | Vikramaditya Rai - 1970 - 210 pages
...where. Never and always. The dead past is the most potent teacher of the so-called living present: The communication Of the dead is tongued with fire, beyond the language of the living. The 'tongue of fire' introduces us to 'the dark dove with a flickering tongue' and the scene changes... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1943 - 68 pages
...an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. And what the dead had no speech for, when living,...tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. Here, the intersection of the timeless moment Is England and nowhere. Never and always. II Ash on an... | |
 | John Eric Sidney Thompson - 1990 - 470 pages
...four centuries ago. I like to think they have mellowed my thoughts and my pen. As TS Eliot put it, "The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." A word about citations of sources: This book is directed to both aficionados and students; the former... | |
 | Jenny L. Yates - 1996 - 428 pages
...life, we might ask how to be warmed by the ineffable no-thing never quite said. For as TS Eliot noted: "the communication of the Dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living" (Eliot, 50). One near-death survivor says he was pulled by Light far into the cosmos, where he drifted... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...the architect of Blenheim Palace, "Lie heavy on him, earth! For he Laid many heavy loads on thee." 4 And what the dead had no speech for, when living,...tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT, (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet, critic. "Little Gidding," pt. 1 , Four Quartets... | |
 | Nina Swidler - 1997 - 294 pages
...SECTION II Changing the Paradigms Two Return of the Sacred Spirituality and the Scientific Imperative The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. These words grace a tombstone, somewhere near Dylan Thomas's grave, in Westminster Abbey, London. In... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 1996 - 296 pages
...follows it, "TS Eliot: The Communication of the Dead," which begins by quoting Eliot's own epitaph: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. Philip O'Leary. The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, l88l-l92l: Ideology and Innovation. University... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1998 - 260 pages
...be redeemed from fire by fire. The imagery returns to the imagery at the close of the opening part: "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." Thus "The Fire Sermon" of The Waste Land has been transformed, while the five-part structure remains,... | |
 | John Durham Peters - 1999 - 308 pages
...influence on the mental horizons of men. H ADLE Y CANTRIL AND CORDON ALLPORT, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RADIO, 193S And what the dead had no speech for, when living,...fire beyond the language of the living. TS ELIOT, BURNT NORTON, 1936 To the extent that the last works of art still communicate, they denounce the prevailing... | |
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. 
