What does T.S.Eliot mean when says:” I should be glad of another death” ?
Eliot puts the words “I should be glad of another death” in the mouth of one of the Magi in his “Journey of the Magi.” He has the same fellow say, “I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different; this Birth was hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.” He is thus saying that Christ’s nativity was a certain kind of death for him and his companions, both in the journey itself and in the change from their previous lives. Eliot has him say that if he had the choice, he would have preferred a different way to “die,” another way of saying, I think, that he felt he would have preferred his old life to the new one that began with Christ’s birth..
