10-13-2016, 04:45 AM
LJay Wrote:No, not at all, Ammon.
To me that phrase has always been a battling with the tension which is in all of us--a sort of yin yang, though not only that. It implies a pulling between active and the passive parts of us and, to me, more also. Poetry, like any art, has a flux within it that finds meaning in the reader, so your meaning may not be mine.
I don't think your post is meaningless at all. I do think that the tiny scrap of Eliot's long poem may be drawing toward a similar way of looking at things.
Here is a link which may be of interest:
https://www.quora.com/What-did-T-S-Eliot...ot-to-care
A caution: I do not think that there is more to Eliot than a strictly Christian matrix would imply.
Thanks for explaining, well the reason I posted that was because I used to be introvert, afraid to try new things, afraid to meet new people, everything I did or said made me think "what would he/she think of me" or "oh god I made a fool of myself" etc.. So I unintentionally practiced not caring, repeating to myself that I don't care made me eventually believe my own lie.
It's actually weird to explain but yeah, that's why I posted what I posted 😀