These lyrics mark Frost as a severe and unaccommodating writer: they are ironic, troubled and ambiguous in many of the ways modernist poems are. Despite a lamentable gift for public impersonations ...

S. Eliot poem “The Waste Land” that may evoke the Book of Genesis. It certainly captures the message of Ash Wednesday. Published in 1922, Eliot’s modernist poem laments the spiritual poverty ...

and the influence of the Catholic Church over Irish politics and society are just a some of the major modern Irish problems and barriers to progress highlighted and the poem does nothing to gloss ...