Journey of the Magi

This poem gives us an inside look at the three wise men journey to see the newborn baby Jesus. I believe people think it was such an easy and a happy trip, but Eliot takes a different approach to this. He tells of "the dead of winter and the camels galled sore-footed, refractory." It was a hard journey for the wise men. It talks of how they miss their palaces and there easy life. "And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly and the villages dirty and charging high prices." This all paints a very different picture then what is assumed. It forces the reader to think outside the box of what is thought of when concerning baby Jesus. At last they arrive to the place and consider it satisfactory. Eventually they return to their kingdoms "but no longer at ease here, with alien people clutching their Gods. The had seen the true God and now there palaces are not enough.