Reading Sweeney Among the Nightingales | Alexandria
Read Sweeney Among the Nightingales by T.S. Eliot. Lurking beneath Eliot's nightingales lies a brutal portrait of modern alienation through animalistic imagery - humans reduced to apes and bird-watchers while violence and desire intertwine. His fusion of mythic archetypes with modern squalor reveals timeless truths about civilization's thin veneer, challenging assumptions about human progress.