Ash-Wednesday
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Ash-Wednesday is a 1930 poem by T. S. Eliot that marks his turn toward Christian faith, blending spiritual introspection with complex, allusive verse.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| author | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely studied in modernist literary criticism ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1930 ⓘ |
| followsWork | The Waste Land ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist poetry
ⓘ
religious poetry ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Part I: "Because I do not hope to turn again"
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Part II ⓘ Part III ⓘ Part IV ⓘ Part V ⓘ Part VI ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Biblical imagery
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Christian liturgy ⓘ Dante Alighieri ⓘ T. S. Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism ⓘ mystical theology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| meter | free verse ⓘ |
| notableLine |
"Because I do not hope to turn again"
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"Suffer me not to be separated" ⓘ "Teach us to care and not to care" ⓘ |
| positionInCareer | first major poem after Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1930 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Four Quartets
ⓘ
The Waste Land ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Anglo-Catholicism ⓘ |
| structure | six-part poem ⓘ |
| style |
allusive
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complex ⓘ fragmentary ⓘ |
| subject | inner spiritual struggle ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Lenten penitence ⓘ |
| theme |
Christian faith
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conversion ⓘ despair and hope ⓘ grace ⓘ prayer ⓘ renunciation ⓘ repentance ⓘ search for God ⓘ spiritual introspection ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | Ash Wednesday ⓘ |
| writer | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
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