In this poem, the narrator is an old man, who says that age has not mellowed him, but has, in fact, made him more virulent and less tolerant. He even revels in this, not caring that in his old age he is a bitter man.
Eliot's shows the reader that a person can mire himself in the quicksand of bitterness and contempt if he or she leaves wrong thoughts and.....
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