The journey of the Magi

Christmas theme is the subject of TS Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi. Start with one of the three Magus' tells the story happened long after the event, the three represent the three Magi from the East came to Bethlehem to witness the birth of Christ, the birth of a new religion - the Christianity. The speaker speaks of fatigue or cold during their journey through the land passed physics, dark and sad and bitter,had to cross the camel come back to their birthplace, a place where faith has brought a new search for them.

In this study, after they have been on tour since they are exposed to unmanageable efforts through the harsh desert landscapes and cold, their sore-footed camels almost always irritable, and villages, where parking for the cabin owners for charge exhorbitant sentences so that they decide to travel all night indark, only occasionally able to take a nap - all this and more - make the pilgrimage to ask whether their decision to undertake the trip was wrong, in an act of "madness" in the first place? He nostalgic thinking of the joys of summer palaces on the hill slopes on terraces from which fact has served to be happy with a glass of sherbet in the hands of fair maidens draped in silk. But now, with no way back, all you can do is continue.

Their approachThe end of the journey, finally crossed a valley of wet snow, unlike those hard below the freezing point they had crossed the border to be a city where the hostility of nature appear to be easing, you can smell the vegetation, hear the sweet sound of a stream and a water mill to speak of human settlements, as night came on the day. We are "The three trees on a low sky," probably is symbolically loaded with clouds of doubt, and the vision of three three trees areWriting on the wall of the thee Calvery crosses on that of Christ and two thieves. The old white horse is impressive image of Christ, the winner rode a white horse on his second coming, that is, from its mission to redeem mankind.

Next is a tavern with vine leaves to find three men involved, speaks softly, with furtive glances, gambling and drinking bawdily shaded. But all are not in a position to be understood as a conspiracy to thatch, and thus passed.These are all allusions to communion in the tavern leaves the betrayal of Christ for thirty pieces of silver, the face of Christ before the crucifixion insults, and the soldiers roll the dice for the garments of Christ at the crucifixion.

Continuation of the journey, the pilgrims arrive at night manger in place, in time, witnessing the birth of Christ and the birth of a new faith. But somehow arrive at their destination with all the inconvenienceobject along the route is not one of jubilation, but only "satiafactory. In the following lines, we learn why her, why not free of exuberance and a sense of satiety, it should be.

The narrator explains that this is necessary, reminders, an event that happened in a long time back, now that would make it more ", but rejected / fixed / This" emphatic, almost certainly be implied to know now beforeConspiracy, this "killing" of Jesus, he set down ', ie, do not let it, and asks sarcastically

"We were all paved the way for

Birth or death? "

"I saw the birth and death of Christ and this, says the Wizard, in back, and after witnessing the resurrection of Christ, he came to faith in the Incarnation, which is considered impossible in their old faith. Cling to old belief, which is still a part of their lives, and that Christ came to sweepgone, but the impact of the experience of "witness" has its usual pleasures observation of the old religion to which they were now playing back in memory, like the rich darkness. The narrator feels that his long life has already experienced a death prelimonary. Their gods, who have kept the faith, now appear as alien deity. It now wants another "death" for its final release.

Because only the "death" of his old faithand myths that can be born in or converted to the Christian faith, and that is the redemption that he is now devoutly to be desired.