(Eliot,126), he is revealing the fact that the mermaids know that there would be no use in attempting their song on the elusive poet - he would, after all, have no interest. This, more than any other lines, and especially as paired with the michelangelo references paint a picture of a poet who chose to express his sexuality through myth and poetry rather than in reality. History may or may not support the idea that T.S. Eliot was simply born in a time and place that made it impossible for him to love or sleep with whomever he wanted. As Louis Menand writes in the New Yorker, “It is certainly possible that Eliot had homosexual feelings. He might have had exclusively homosexual feelings (...) he might have had bisexual feelings; he might have had homosexual feelings that he repressed, or that he felt ashamed of or guilty about. He might have had homoerotic encounters, and he might even have had homosexual experiences (...) The trouble is that the evidence available to establish any of these things is hopelessly inconclusive” (Menand, The New Yorker) So we must take our clues solely from the words that Eliot himself has so carefully crafted; the truth will remain elusive. What we can presume is that if T.S. Eliot were to be alive today, a time when many sexualities are …show more content…
She is known to be one of the acclaimed queer authors of her time; what was most astonishing is that she was writing at a time when the idea was not accepted; hence her celibate marriage to someone of the opposite sex. Virginia Woolf was a writer with a lesbian mind, and her characters, especially in her book “Mrs.Dalloway” reflect this approach. She was rebellious and, much like the poet T.S. Eliot, much of her frustration at being unable to live with the partner whom she desired physically, was expressed through the cold comfort of pen and