Titlebook: Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up; Allyson Booth Book 2015 Allyson Booth 2015 death.design.poem.water.British and Irish Literature

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“And the dead tree gives no shelter”: Ecclesiastes for a line about a dead tree and a cricket:.His note for “And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief” sends us to Ecclesiastes 12:5, which reads: “Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshop

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“(Those are pearls that were his eyes)”: Shakespeare’s ,y delineated. What she says is not in quotation marks, but it is tagged at the beginning with the guiding “said she,” and ends with the message to Mrs. Equitone: “Tell her I bring the horoscope myself: / One must be so careful these days” (WL 58–59). The only words in between that are not so clearly

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“Unreal City”: Baudelaire’s “The Seven Old Men”re Eliot worked at Lloyds Bank: London Bridge leads directly into King William Street; Eliot worked on Lombard near the intersection of King William Street. Beginning and ending with references to Charles Baudelaire, the “Unreal City” (WL 60) of these lines (60–76) blends Eliot’s London, Baudelaire’

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”O keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men”: Webster’s ,ly— London. King William Street, London Bridge, and the church of Saint Mary Woolnoth can be located on a map of the neighborhood where Eliot himself worked at Lloyds Bank. But the reference to Baudelaire’s “The Seven Old Men” suggests that the urban landscape is Paris, while the pair of references

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“To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general”: Frazer’s ,acknowledges Frazer this way: “To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general, one which has influenced our generation profoundly; I mean .; I have used especially the two volumes .. Anyone who is acquainted with these works will immediately recognise in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies” (CP 70).

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