Eliot has used and these elements make this poem a religious poem.In the very beginning I must tell you that the particular word Ash-Wednesday is not a biblical word. Nowhere in the bible the term Ash-Wednesday is mentioned but it is the treatment of the Ash-Wednesdaywhich makes it ...
But it is iot certain that this was always done precisely on Ash-Wednesday, there being a perfect silence in the most ancient writers about it. 'The discipline used toward penitents in Lent, as described by Gratian, differed from their treatment at other times; for on AshWednesday they ...