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1. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. 2. Memory and desire, stirring. 3. Dull roots with spring rain. 4. Winter kept us warm, covering. 5. Earth in forgetful snow, feeding. 6. A little life with dried tubers. 7. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee. 8. With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, 9.
A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee. With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,
T. S. Eliot opens The Waste Land with an epigraph taken from a Latin novel by Petronius. The epigraph describes a woman with prophetic powers who has been blessed with long life, but who doesn’t stay eternally young. Facing a future of irreversible decrepitude, she proclaims her longing for death.
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot - Poem Analysis. Key Poem Information. Poetry +. Central Message: The search for meaning amidst the fragmented postwar modern world. Themes: Death, Religion, Spirituality. Speaker: Unknown. Emotions Evoked: Anxiety, Hope, Hopelessness. Poetic Form: Dramatic Monologue. Time Period: 20th Century.
The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is arguably the most important poem of the whole twentieth century. It remains a timely poem, even though its origins were very specifically the post-war Europe of 1918-22.
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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.” Soon after entering The Waste Land, we find ourselves unbalanced, at a disadvantage. “Summer surprised us” surprises us.
