Desdemona

Othello (play)

T.S. Eliot

is love's martyr. By dying she wins Othello's love again.

Desdemona is 'love's martyr' - by dying she wins Othello's love again.

is a play in which the murder of Desdemona is heroic because Othello acts from inner necessity; it is an act heroic in its absoluteness, disinterestedness, and finalty. It must be done.

The murder of Desdemona 'is heroic because Othello acts from inner necessity... the act is also heroic in its absoluteness, disinterestedness, and finalty... it must be done.'

is a poet with a remarkable range of diction, and with a natural gift for the vividly memorable phrase.

Eliot was from the first a poet with a remarkable range of diction, and with a natural gift for the vividly memorable phrase. He was always consciously aware of the varied resources of English poetic diction and delighted to place an exotic word exactly, or to give us a sudden shock which the unexpected introduction of a commonplace word or phrase can provide.

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