The Ballads of Gravity

                                     We all leave something behind for an unknown reason and cause, a mystery committed by us for the cosmic law. It demands it. We, the fragile creatures live to leave something behind and finally go back to get it. We left something when we took the shape of a foetus in the womb of our mother. When we die, we return to get the left back again, but still we leave something behind here to return sometimes. Maybe our love, memories, shadows, presence, words, and those yet remains in anticipation of fulfilment... update (18/01/2015): i like the first sentence, but the rest of them are just waste. what was i thinking when i wrote it? i don't know. i don't know how to explain some of my writings, not that they are complex, but i am a total stranger to those words. i fail to encompass the meaning of them.                    

  “Murder in the Cathedral” is a play about the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket.  Becket returns from France to England after seven years of exile and is confronted by four Tempters.  The temptations take the form of alternatives from which Becket is obligated to choose.  In confronting Becket, the First Tempter tells Becket to recover his favors with King Henry to restore the situation that existed before Becket’s disloyalty.  The Second Tempter tells Becket to regain the Office of Chancellor and use its power for his own glory.  Becket is asked by the Third Tempter to join forces with the barons to overthrow the King for the benefit of both the Church and the barons. In this paper I would like to discuss the biblical imageries and quotations found in the “Murder in the Cathedral” through which T.S Eliot tried to make a Christian verse drama. The play is a preaching or a herald for the whole Christendom. Martyrdom becomes a metaphor for Christianity in the play, or how