Cover art for A Cooking Egg by T.S. Eliot

A Cooking Egg

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A Cooking Egg Lyrics

I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
        Madame Blavatsky will instruct me
In the Seven Sacred Trances
;
        Piccarda de Donati will conduct me.

. . . . . .

But where is the penny world I bought
        To eat with Pipit behind the screen?
The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
        From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;

Where are the eagles and the trumpets?

        Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps.
Over buttered scones and crumpets
        Weeping, weeping multitudes
Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s

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what is a simile in this poem?
Genius Answer

We two shall lie together, lapt
In a five per cent Exchequer Bond

Is as close as you get to a simile here, though the functional link of “like” or “as” is elided, the hinge of the term is still implied in a similar form in the line break.

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