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Journey Of Magi Analysis

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Context: These verses appear in The Journey of Magi by TS Eliot. It appears at the end of the poem. "Journey of the Magi" opens with a quote about a journey, and it 's a cold and difficult one. From the title of the poem, we can guess that this is the journey of the Three Kings (or Three Wise Men, or Magi) to the birthplace of Jesus. After the opening quote, the poem elaborates on the difficulties of travel, including grumpy camels, wishing for home (home being warm, palatial, and full of girls and servants), fires going out, unfriendly and expensive towns, and a distinct lack of places to sleep. The speaker notes that the Magi preferred to just travel all night for these reasons, and that through their travels, a little voice in their heads kept suggesting that maybe this whole thing was all for nothing. Then, the narrator goes on to tell of the Magi 's arrival in Bethlehem, a place he describes as "a temperate valley". They still can 't find any info about where they were supposed to go from the villagers, however, so they eventually have to find the stable in which they were to witness the birth of the baby Jesus. The trio arrives just in time. The last part of the poem is more blatantly the Magus reminiscing about the story "all this was a long time ago, I …show more content…

Eliot wrote the famous literary work during the Modernist Free Verse movement (“The Journey of Magi”). The movement began in the 1920s and continues on to this day as a part of the Post-Modernist movement. Poems created during the time period are best known for their originality that sets them apart from those of the past. Though T.S. Eliot’s poem, on the surface, portrays the journey of the Magi to find the baby Jesus, the potential Messiah who will bring about redemption to the world, it serves as a metaphor for T.S. Eliot’s search for meaning in the modern world. T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” renders human kind’s quest to discover the purpose of their existence in an

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