Search results
Webster was much possessed by death. And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground. Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls. Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs. Tightening its lusts and luxuries.
Aug 8, 2017 · Sex and death. There’s a certain symmetry to the poem: there are four stanzas about death, and then four stanzas about eroticism. (And, of course, each of the stanzas has four lines, increasing the almost mathematical patterning of the poem.)
The answer that is usually given is the mass death of the First World War, in which almost a million British men gave their lives in combat. Death, then, has undone not the dead, but the living. What lends this interpretation credence is the fact that Eliot had already used Dante’s Inferno as the epigraph for an earlier poem, his 1915 poem ...
IV. Death by Water. Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell. And the profit and loss. A current under sea. Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell. He passed the stages of his age and youth.
The cultural degeneration from Shakespeare to popular music is emblematic of the decline and debasement seen throughout The Waste Land. Eliot has interestingly affixed an “O O O O” to the beginning of the song, which is reminiscent of the final lines of Hamlet: “The rest is silence. / O, o, o, o.”. It’s so elegant.
Written during the first world war sometime around 1915-1918 and first collected in Eliot's 1919 'Poetry' collection, 'Whispers of Immortality' presents transient human life with a focus on mortality while critiquing the superficiality of society.
People also ask
What is 'the burial of the dead' by T S Eliot?
What quatrain poem does Eliot write?
Did Eliot think death had undone so many?
Why does Eliot say 'fear in a handful of dust'?
Which quatrain poem is more about mortality than immortality?
Why is the burial of the dead so elusive?
Oct 13, 2016 · ‘The Burial of the Dead’ is the first of five sections that make up The Waste Land (1922), T. S. Eliot’s landmark modernist poem. What follows is a short analysis of this opening section, with the most curious and interesting aspects of Eliot’s poem highlighted. You can read ‘The Burial of the Dead’ here. What we intend to do is ...
