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

平庸的人或物

“And the dead tree gives no shelter”: Ecclesiasteshich 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 grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.”

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”O keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men”: Webster’s ,riend, seems from the London details to be a veteran of World War I yet is identified by the speaker as a veteran of the First Punic War: “‘Stetson! / You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!” (WL 69–70). The Battle of Mylae was fought in 260 BCE.

脆弱带来

“(Those are pearls that were his eyes)”: Shakespeare’s , spoken by the clairvoyant are the ones in parentheses: “(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)” (WL 48). Though Eliot doesn’t footnote . until this eerie remark about pearls and eyes reappears in “A Game of Chess,” the line belongs to Shakespeare’s Ariel.

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