Another reference to the virginity of the girl child in the poem - "green" as in not ripe, not mature, not ready young girl and "girlwood" instead of piece of wood being split open - the girl's young body was split open like a piece of wood. ... The last line of the fourth stanza, which continues into the fifth stanza, ends here mid point. ...
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
