A Byzantine Song for Simeon: The Fourth Kontakion of St. Romanos
Every epoch sings its own song of Simeon, its spirit mirrored in the figure of the old man who is but a step distant from death. T. S. Eliot in 1928 wrote ‘A Song for Simeon’ expressing the disillusionment, the hollow weariness of the years following the Great War. A pallid, cold lifelessness envelo...
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Cambridge University Press
1968
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Traditio
Year: 1968, Volume: 24, Pages: 409-420 |
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| Summary: | Every epoch sings its own song of Simeon, its spirit mirrored in the figure of the old man who is but a step distant from death. T. S. Eliot in 1928 wrote ‘A Song for Simeon’ expressing the disillusionment, the hollow weariness of the years following the Great War. A pallid, cold lifelessness envelops his poem, which heavy with death proceeds through images of ‘the mountain of desolation,’ ‘winter sun,’ ‘snow hills’ and ‘dust in sunlight.’ Simeon looks wearily backward as he waits ‘for the wind that chills towards the dead land.’ |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900004785 |