ds to describe an event that took place. He and his lover drank out the same glass. When he went to wash the “chalice of ours”(48) and it fell into the pool at the bottom of the falls. They both try and get it back out but they are unable to reach it. This implicates a greater supernatural power is at work. Something much stronger then their relationship. The lover though to himself that “it I thrust my arm below / Cold water in basin or bowl, a throe”(39-40). This means that it will hurt him. This shows that a stronger than their relationship is at work making it impossible to regain the chalice. Now it is there “By night, by day, when it shines or lours, / there lies intact that chalice of our, …”(47-48). This is symbolic of something greater, the lovers’ everlasting love for each other and how it will always be there. This poem is written through the experiences of normal ordinary people and not about experiences of extraordinary or powerful people which is a trait of Twentieth Century poets. All this expresses the feeling that Romantic poets put into their work, the power of nature and the supernatural powers that come with it. What makes this particular poem Twentieth Century is the event that occurred could happen to anyone and it is not about a grand adventure. This is also what many poets wrote about during his time. The time that he lived and wrote during was full of wars and dominated by political turmoil. This poem shows the permanence of a casual relationship represented by the lovers’ chalice. At the time that he wrote, not many things were permanent, especially in the political arena in Europe. The poem “Sweeney Among the Nightingales” by T. S. Eliot is a little more difficult to understand but stills addresses political turmoil by expressing the need for permanence, as in the past, and the chaos of politics using the casual relationships ...
