by Eliot · Cluster: Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Abstract
Title/dedication page of Eliot’s collected verse, opening with the Prufrock dedication to Jean Verdenal (mort aux Dardanelles) and a Dante epigraph; frames the volume’s preoccupation with mortality, memory and the elegiac.
Connections
Themes & Concepts: Mortality, Grief and Loss Forms & Genres: Elegy, Lyric Historical References: First World War, Dante
Testo integrale / Full text
COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962
PRUFROCK
and Other Observations
1917
For Jean Verdenal, 1889–1915
mort aux Dardanelles
Or puoi la quantitate
comprender dell’amor ch’a te mi scalda,
quando dismento nostra vanitate,
trattando l’ombre come cosa salda.