...the evening was generally treated as a moment of sublime rapture, as in Wordsworth's famous lines. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility. Eliot is clearly working against this kind of Romantic image, forcing the reader to accept...

...turning the thing-free and Gestalt-free entities into emotionally loaded diffuse information, as in: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy Time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration... or Oh listen! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. By contrast, when the thing-free...

...15:1-11 IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE It is a beaureous evening, calm and free, The holy rime is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad...down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Lisren! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his erernal motion make A sound...

...is a Beautious Evening, Calm and Free," as they walk in the fading darkness by the vast openness of the sea: Listen! The mighty Being is awake, And doth...Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's...

...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. It Is a Beauteous Evening It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound...

...familiar mise-en-scene borrowed from the poetry of Sensibility — namely, a shoreline at dusk: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound...

...I liked what he had said. We sat a while longer and I began to think of Wordsworth's "By the Sea": The gentleness of heaven is on the sea: Listen! The...with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlasting. Poetry offered me inspiration, encouragement, and spiritual renewal. Wordsworth had...