https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9o_B6HS8Xc - the poem read by the poet
https://genius.com/Ts-eliot-ash-wednesday-annotated- about the poet
Each Ash Wednesday, to the day before/after it, I revisit this poem. It details among other things, Eliot's conversion to the Church of England, and to its Anglo-Catholic wing.
We live in an age where Christianity in specific and religion, in general, is generic, fantastical, or tied to a political agenda. That is not the case here. Religion should not be a quick-fix, and it should not be a spectator event. Wrestling with eternal questions is necessary and produces good results.
For those readers who are neither religious nor spiritual, I simply commend the beauty of the poem.
My novel: https://www.blurb.com/b/10799783-the-botleys-of-beaumont-county
My poetry: https://www.amazon.com/Arthur-Turfa/e/B00YJ9LNOA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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