T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.[2] Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Wednesday, June 30th,
0:05.4	2021. Today's poem is by Thomas Stern's Elliott, aka T.S. Eliot, who lived from 1888 to
0:14.3	1965 and is one of the most significant poets and artists of the 20th century. And he is responsible for numerous,
0:24.5	well-known, remarkable poems for an incredible influence on poets that came after him.
0:31.5	And today I'm going to actually read a poem that I didn't know terribly well, but when I ran
0:35.6	across it recently, I wanted to share it with you because I really enjoyed it.
0:39.3	It's kind of a poem that's up my alley, I suppose. It's called Cape Anne, and it goes like this.
0:48.2	Oh, quick, quick, quick, quick, hear the song, Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Vesper Sparra at dawn and dusk.
0:56.5	Follow the dance of the goldfinch at noon.
0:59.5	Leave to chance the Blackburnian Warbler, the shy one.
1:03.3	Hail with shrill whistled the note of the quail, the bobwhite dodging by bay bush.
1:09.2	Follow the feet of the walker, the water thrush, follow the flight of the
1:14.1	dancing arrow, the purple martin. Greet in silence, the bull bat. All are delectable,
1:22.3	sweet, sweet, sweet, but resign this land at the end.
1:30.6	Resign it to its true owner.
1:33.1	The tough one.
1:35.4	The seagull.
1:39.1	The palaver is finished.
1:48.1	So Cape Ann was a place that T.S. Eliot actually had a house that he vacationed to. I believe there was an article in one of the big journals, The New Yorker or something,
1:53.3	maybe three or four years ago about his house there and how the place itself became kind of a
2:00.2	important inspiration for a lot of his work,
2:05.6	in particular the four quartets, if I'm not mistaken.
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