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Published in full, with notes. Also featuring Eliot's own reflections and an edited selection of the contemporary reviews, English and American.
Uma sombra medra sob esta rocha escarlate. (Chega-te à sombra desta rocha escarlate), E vou mostrar-te algo distinto. De tua sombra a caminhar atrás de ti quando amanhece. Ou de tua sombra vespertina ao teu encontro se elevando; Vou revelar-te o que é o medo num punhado de pó. Frisch weht der Wind.
It’s an image repeated to the point of cliché in subsequent centuries. But in the waste land of T.S. Eliot’s modern world, amid the ruins of World War I, the Chaucerian image of a fertile and resurrective April becomes suffused with cruelty. It is, ironically, winter that “kept us warm.”.
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, 9. And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10. And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. 11. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. 12. And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
eliot’s career before the waste land Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 26 September 1888, the last of six children. He had four sisters, the oldest of whom was nineteen years his senior, and one brother, Henry, who was nine years older. His mother and father were already in their forties by the time Eliot was born.
Desolation and Decay — The overarching theme of the poem is the spiritual and cultural desolation of the modern world. This is symbolized by the barren landscapes and the “waste land” itself, representing the moral and spiritual bankruptcy of society post-World War I. Water — Water in “The Waste Land” is a paradoxical symbol.
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial.
