ow and just before he left, he: “Circumscribe a golden grin”(33). He seems to be longing for better time where relationships and everything should be more permanent. Finally the poem ends with another reference to Greek Mythology, a reference of permanence and stability in the past:” When Agamemnon cried aloud / And let their liquid siftings fall / To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.”(38-40). Throughout the entire poem the author is seems to be wishing for something more permanent and stable, and not have to look to the past for stability. Maybe he is hoping that soon something will arise that will be just as permanent as the stars.All in all, these two poems reveal the ideas and concerns of their time. They used their poetry as a way of describing the political turmoil they are experiencing. In Hardys’ poem he wants things to be as permanent as the waterfall and the chalice in the pool. In Eliots’ poem he is also longing for thing to be more permanent, like the stars and Greek mythology. Twentieth century authors expressed many other thing but for the beginning half of the period they seemed to concentrate on the political turmoil caused by many wars during that time. The people of that time could sympathize and understand the events the poets were talking about because most probably experienced many of those same things. History does repeat itself because every era goes through a fighting period full of political turmoil but something eventually does come along which makes things stable and more permanent....
