Eliot portrays a religious service in this poem. The poem deals with the great issues of life and the great Truths being sermonized, while life continues in the background in the insect and plant world. The reader senses great questions in this poem. Why is humankind here? Why does this universe exist in its mathematical precision?
T.S. Eliot discusses man's smallness in relation to.....
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