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Sesostris
Madame Sosostris figure is a reference to Miss Jessie Weston’s book. A Tarot deck of cards has four suits; cup, lance, sword, dish – the life symbol found in the Holy Grail story. The Tarot -
III. The Fire Sermon
The chapter is, simply, about sexual intercourse. The title of this chapter, The Fire Sermon, is a sermon given by Buddha. In this sermon, he encourages people to stay away from earthly passion – free themselv -
I. The Burial of the Dead
T. S. Eliot begins with the contrasting notion of “April”. He alludes to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, where “April” is not the sweet and joyous time of the year but the cruelest. The first -
V. What the Thunder Said
“What the Thunder Said” is set in various places. The first three stanzas are set in a desolate and deserted place where it resembles a true waste land, emphasizing the dire need of society -
II. A Game of Chess
This chapter title is taken from two plays by the early-17 playwright Thomas Middleton, in which the theme of one play is, a move in a game of chess denotes stages in seduction. This -
Tarot Cards - Allusions & Interpretations
The Phoenician Sailor – Phlebas, the Smyrna Merchant – Mr. Eugenides, have the same symbolic character, and are related to Shakespeaere’s play The Tempest. In The Tempest, Ariel’s song to the shipwrecked Ferdinand, is about -
To My Reader (Au Lecteur)
"To the Reader" is a poem written by Charles Baudelaire as part of his larger collection of poetry Fleurs du mal(Flowers of Evil), first published in 1857. Au Lecteur (To the Reader) -
William's Shakespeare The Tempest
- William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is most likely the last play ever written by the legendary English playwright. The Tempest is a story of a powerful sorcerer Prospero and his daughter Miranda, who are -
Hyacinths
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) is a type of flower plant native to the eastern Mediterranean. Hyacinth is also the name of the Greek Hero Hyakinthos, who happens to be a lover of Apollo. -
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The fisherman’s sitting on an arid plain behind him refers to the Fisher King who has gone to the other side of the waste land. “Shall I at least set my lands in order -
Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde is an opera composed by Richard Wagner between the years 1857-1859. The opera was based on the Authurian love story of the same name. Wagner's works were of great influence -
Allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight. Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight. -
Marie Larisch
Marie Louise Larisch von Meonnich, also known as Marie Larisch, is was an Austrian Countess. She was born on February 24th, 1858 and died on July 4th, 1940, and was the niece and confidante of -
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land Wiki
This page serves as the analysis of the epic poem, The Waste Land, by the famed poet T.S. Eliot. This is NOT the official wiki of the poem, but an attempt to analyze the -
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It has been suggested that the road winding up the mountain leads to the Chapel Perilous, where the Grail knight must go on his quest. The second stanza describes a land without any water: only -
Allusion and Detailed Analysis of Philomela
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale -
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“Then spoke the thunder” is the allusion to Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The fable says through thunder, God spoke to men, Gods, and Devils to guide them the way to approach the internal peace. He used -
Form
Write the first paragraph of your page here. Form His poem does not have a constant rhyme scheme. But every now and then, there are lines with rhyme meter – these are the references of musical -
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This final section opens with images after Jesus was taken prisoner in the garden of Gethsemane and after the cruxification itself. The “torchlight red on sweaty faces” perhaps indicates the guards who come to take -
Violet hour
Line 215- 219: During the poem, the violet hour keeps on repeating. Violet hour is the time when the sun is setting, and the sky turns purple. The sun set scene and the violet color -
Mr. Eugenides
Mr. Eugenides is a Smyrna merchant. He is probably the one-eye merchant in Madame Sosostris’s Tarot cards reading (chapter 1). In the reading, this card represents obstacles that going against the viewer. His -
The waters of Leman
That line is a reference to Psalm 137, in which people of Israel, exiled to Babylon, cry by the river as they remember Jerusalem. In this poem, the people of Israel represent Europeans, and Jerusalem -
Tiresias
In this part of the Fire Sermon, Tiresias is the narrator. He was an ancient Greek prophet who got punished by Hera for separated two snakes copulating. He was turned into a woman for seven -
Et, O ces voix d’enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
“And O those children's voices singing in the dome!” This is a quotation from Verlaine’s Parsifal. The poem about a knight named Parsifal who has resisted all lust and desire so he -
I. Burial of the Dead: Stanza 1 Detailed Analysis
STANZA 1 (lines 1-18)
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