Saturday, September 12, 2015
After...
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (TWL), lines 322-330
322 I.e., after the fire of Section III, with its river sweat (line 266), red sails (line 270) and incessant burning (line 308).
✭ Lines 322-330 reflect the HOLY WEEK narrative; see also notes 71, 366 and 393, and see Luke 22: 39-45: “And he [Jesus] came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweatwas as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow.” See alsoMatthew 26:36, placing this prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane; and John 18:3, adding soldiers’ torches to the scene; compare these to the torches in Whitman, Memories 6 (see note 202 and Appendix A).
323 I.e., after the water of Section IV and its association with the drowned girl in the hyacinth garden (lines 37 and 38).
324 I.e., after the earth of Section I, with its stony rubbish (line 20). See also Matthew 13:5: “Some [seeds] fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth”
325 I.e., after the air and talk of Section II (see note 76.5).
329 See Brooks**, noting the limbo of those “living ...now dying” in split levels of life and death.
from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, with annotations (and other explanations)
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