I chose the title "Between two waves of the sea" because, if you haven't guessed, it is from Little Gidding, which, by the end of the year, will be my groups specialty. The full verse is:
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea."
I felt that the title was appropriate because our class is about epiphanies and Eliot is describing a hidden truth only found in an unknown silence. Professor Sexson was talking in class (although it may have been in the emergent literature class) about returning to a time and place or deja vu. In the simplest of forms, Eliot is saying epiphanies can be found "between two waves of the sea." Hopefully as class progresses I can better dissect the meaning of Little Gidding, especially this verse since it is the one I am suppose to memorize.
This is interesting to me. Deja vu is real you know, or at least I can confess that I have experienced it many times. The feeling relates to a "sort of" silence... a scrabbling of the memory desiring more of that experience so to offer explanation.
ReplyDeleteBreeze, I like the verse "we shall not cease from exploration ...... and know the place for the first time.-- Fits
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