grim-dark:

kirkwallhellmouth replied to your post: “One college professor of English suggested Eliot was looking back to the “whimper” in the cradle in Bethlehem that signaled the end of the old world, the Pax Romana, and the coming of the new Christian age.”

…I am really glad I managed to escape having that kind of English prof.

omg they’re so bad

high school english man

THE WORST

LOL. In 11th grade AP English (with gloriously artsy and scatterbrained woman, so at least things were never dull) we briefly discussed impotence symbolism in Ethan Frome.

It was mainly funny because it weirded out/kind of horrified the German exchange student.