Gods_Spear
Active Member
My teachers have just been saying what I said earlier about magi being a contrast. When Magi was written Elliot had converted to Anglicanism and while magi is still not a happy poem it has an element of hope, and follows the common poetic conventions a bit more. The magi also complete a journey but unlike earlier journeys by the flaneurs their journey has a purpose. So Magi is less saying humans have a desire for spirituality and more that spirituality is hard but is a counter to the stagnation and mundanity of modern life. Thats what my teachers been saying at least. Elliot is far happier when he wrote this poemyea i put magi into the paragraph about desire for spirituality along with hollow men so my structure is like:
para 1: poem 1 & 2 hollow men, preludes (stagnation & mundanity)
para 2: poem 2 & 3 hollow men, magi (desire for spirituality)
para 3: poem 3 & 1 magi, preludes (fragmentation & decay of society)
this is the structure my school recommended... any1 else the same?