ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot, Fisher King
18 Apr 2017
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Cricket no relief ecclediastes - #2 what happens while you age: all of humanity has aged. Hide under red rock for shade biblical image #3: hope, you have to find it. What happened to love in the waste land: so in love, but his response is nothing. There is nothing but a wide expanse of ocean. Astrologer: phoenician sailor he represents the whole of the glory of the phoenician soldier. In the waste land, people just die and go nowhere. People going neither up nor down: 1st circle of hell limbo not the people from outside, but want tend to existence in limbo, stetson unknown man. Involved in war: that corpse sprout in waste land, if you bury fisher king, dogs will prevent him from rising. 2 plays from elizabethan times: chess as center image of conflict, chess pieces appear, talk to each other. Opening passage about cleopatra"s throne: people ruining entire world because of love.
