Sometimes I pause and sadly think—Of the things that might have been,Of the golden chances I let slip by,—And which never returned againThink of the joys that might have been mine;—The prizes I almost won,The goals I missed by a mere hair's breadth;—And the things I might have doneIt fills me with gloom when I ponder thus,—Till I look on the other side,How I might have beenFor Eliot this vision of a "might have been" is "reality," as distinct from the loveless "Unreal city," the urban scenes of The Waste Land In The Waste Land the waste is a place, London in the wake of the First World War;Home / Uncategorized it might have been meaning in tamil it might have been meaning in tamil No Comments
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