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On the birthday of T. S. Eliot, I'm looking at his poems, his legacy, and how he came to be the inspiration for one of our most popular musicals. Includes a ...
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Gain an better understanding and appreciation for the works of T.S. Eliot, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.
Immerse yourself in the haunting and enigmatic world of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, as I recite the profound and evocative Sections 4 & 5 of this modernist ...
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Nov 3, 2016 · ‘Death by Water’ is by far the shortest of the five sections of T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land. The section which precedes it, ‘The Fire Sermon’, is 234 lines – over half of the entire length of the poem.
And this chimes with a phenomenon often witnessed in the poem: so many of its characters are experiencing a kind of living death, or a deadened form of life. This is present arguably even before the poem itself actually begins, in the epigraph from the scurrilous Roman novel Satyricon by Petronius.
Nov 17, 2014 · Published in 1925, ‘The Hollow Men’ was something of a transitional poem for Eliot, coming between the success of The Waste Land (see below) and Eliot’s later, more religiously oriented poetry such as Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets.
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One of the five sections of the poem is the name “Death by Water.” The tarot reader Madame Sosostris also warns about death by water. In this manner, water symbolizes death and life at different points in the poem.
