In a time when the religion of sentiments seeks to replace that of Christ, here is an unsentimental poem on the impact of Christ on human life.>

TS Eliot’s Journey of the Magi is not what we might expect, raised on Star of Wonder and nativity plays at school. At its end is not the glow of what has come but what we know has now gone. The last word is “death”. What is going on?>Journey of the Magi is a poem about the terrible beauty of realising that Christ is real.

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