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The Waste Land
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The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's most famous poem, as well as the most famous Modernist poem. It is mainly about how the world is hopelessly lost and how life cannot be regenerated. It is also incredibly confusing. Full text hereNot to be confused with The Waste Lands, the third book in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. (Though the book makes open references to the poem.) | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: A possible interpretation of the typist in The Fire Sermon: "Endeavours to engage her in caresses / Which still are unreproved, if undesired. / Flushed and decided, he assaults at once; / Exploring hands encounter no defence; / His vanity requires no response, / And makes a welcome of indifference." | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Eliot's annotations. Except that they just raise further questions. | |
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Mandatory Motherhood | |
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Mandatory Motherhood: "What you get married for if you don't want children?" | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: When he calls out to the "hypocrite reader". | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: It is The Waste Land after all. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Some of the allusions, like all that nightingale business. Also some internal examples, like "death by water" and the "pearls that were his eyes". The Burial of the Dead's "know[ing] nothing" is echoed in A Game of Chess. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Two of the lines from The Waste Land make an allusion to the Bible. The annotations show that line 20 alludes to Ezekiel 2:1, while line 23 alludes to Ecclesiastes 12:5. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: Parts three and five are allusions to Buddhist works, and part one to the Book of Common Prayer. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: There are some lines that are in German, French, and Italian, and some Sanskrit words. The Latin epigraph translates to: Once with my own eye I saw the Sybil of Cumae, hanging in a jar, and the boys were saying to her: "What is it you desire?" She responded, "I wish to die." Oh, and the dialogue there is in Greek. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: "The fragments I have shored against my ruins," at the end of the poem; referring to fragmented sentences he put before this line. Also, the second part of The Burial of the Dead mentions "a heap of broken images"— like the poem itself. | |
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Hermaphrodite | |
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Hermaphrodite: Tiresias. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: The hyacinth girl, at first. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: All these different linguistic registers in one poem. It's what grabbed people's attention back in 1922, and it still has the power to do so. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French, Gratuitous German, Gratuitous Italian, and gratuitous Sanskrit. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Way towards the cynical end. Though it can be argued that the cynicism is moderated, to an extent, by the ending stanzas of the last canto, What The Thunder Said, in which Eliot proposes three virtues (using one of the most famous sections of the Upanishads) — charity, mercy and self-control — as means of escaping the sterile Waste Land of modern civilization. | |
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Thirsty Desert | |
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Thirsty Desert: serves as both metaphor for spiritual and emotional death in modern society, and as the literal threat of death from thirst and exposure in the wastes. | |
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The Insomniac | |
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"Lidless eyes" might just be referring to inability to get restful sleep. | |
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Public Domain Character | |
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Public Domain Character: Tiresias and the Fisher King. | |
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Chess with Death | |
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Chess with Death: at minimum nodded to by the section A Game Of Chess, with the conversation drifting heavily to suggestions of a Living Memory style vision forged from a painful memory. | |
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Intrepid Merchant | |
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Intrepid Merchant: Phlebas the Phoenician and Mr. Eugenides, sort of. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: It pays you the compliment of assuming you know what it's talking about. See "Shout-Out". | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Unreal City," "fear death by water," and "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME," to name but a few. | |
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The Annotated Edition | |
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The Annotated Edition: Provided by Eliot himself. You can also get a Facsimile Edition of the poem, incorporating photographic images of the entire manuscript, including everything that was cut before publication, and with further notes. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: I will show you fear in a handful of dust. | |
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City Noir | |
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City Noir: Unreal City. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: Tiresias won't stop going on about the fact that, despite the fact he is no longer a woman anymore after seven years of being one thanks to the Goddess Hera, he's been left with a pair of huge sagging breasts. He usually points this out after the poem says something meaningful or dark. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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The narrator of the first section of A Game Of Chess suggests this agenda: "The hot water at ten. / And if it rains, a closed car at four. / And we shall play a game of chess, / pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door." "Lidless eyes" might just be referring to inability to get restful sleep. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: The three of staves is one of the tarot cards drawn, the Fisher King appears three times in the poem, there are the three Thames-daughters, the thunder strikes three times. | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
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Written Sound Effect: A few times, Eliot writes out birdsong with nonsense words — "jug jug," "twit twit twit," "co co rico," etc. The penultimate line of the poem is "Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata," words which are both the sound of thunder and a meditative mantra in Sanskrit. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: The house agent's clerk in The Fire Sermon. | |
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Age Without Youth | |
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The Latin epigraph translates to: Once with my own eye I saw the Sybil of Cumae, hanging in a jar, and the boys were saying to her: "What is it you desire?" She responded, "I wish to die." Oh, and the dialogue there is in Greek. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME. | |
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Emotionless Girl | |
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Emotionless Girl: The typist home at teatime. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: the poem never makes clear what exactly is going on, following a dream-like progression between scenes and a chaotic blending of allusion, memory, and ambiguous present-tense events. | |
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Tarot Motifs | |
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Tarot Motifs: Specifically in the third vignette of part one. (Though some of the cards it mentions aren't actually in the Arcana. Eliot acknowledges this in the annotations, of course.) | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: There's a really unflattering sex scene, possibly a rape scene. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: It even ends with a massive list of all of its allusions, including The Bible, John Webster, Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Paul Verlaine, and Charles Baudelaire. | |
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Dead Person Conversation | |
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Dead Person Conversation: With Stetson. Tiresias also mentions doing this during his career as a Hellenic mystic. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: In his annotations, Eliot mentions the three Thames-daughters, who are expies of the Rhine-maidens from the Götterdämmerung. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The narrator in the first "Unreal City" section talking to Stetson. "That corpse you planted last year in your garden..." Perhaps not as squicky as it first appears; "That Corpse" might refer to the Corpse Flower, whose fragrance resembles rotting meat. Though, considering that he just mentioned the battle of Mylae... The narrator of the first section of A Game Of Chess suggests this agenda: "The hot water at ten. / And if it rains, a closed car at four. / And we shall play a game of chess, / pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door." "Lidless eyes" might just be referring to inability to get restful sleep. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Lill from the end of A Game of Chess. | |
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Dying Dream | |
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Dying Dream: One interpretation is that the second-person protagonist is hallucinating the scenes as they wander lost and dying of thirst in the desert. | |
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