The Wasteland Part 1

Question 1

What is the wasteland from and who suggested it

Answer 1

Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory

Wife vivienne haigh-wood

Question 2

Where did the original epigraph come from and who rejected it

Answer 2

Heart of darkness

Ezra pound a poet and fundraiser of poems

Question 3

Where is the epigraph actually from

Answer 3

Satyricon by Petronius and sibyl of cumae

Question 4

What two languages are in the epigraph and what is in the dedication

Answer 4

Greek, Latin and Italian

Question 5

Who is the dedication for and what does he call him and what is it a reference to

Answer 5

Ezra pond, he calls him the better craftsman from Dante purgatoro

Question 6

The burial of the dead is based off of what

Answer 6

Anglican burial service

Question 7

What was the original title

Answer 7

He doe the police in different voices from the book our mutual friend by Charles dickens, character sloppy

Question 8

What does sibyl say , after she wished for long life but not youth

Answer 8

I want to die

Question 9

Paradoxes in first stanza

Answer 9

April is the cruelest month
Winter kept us warm
Normally seen as month of resurrection and new life; winter normally seen as barren and dead season
Now roles reversed, bringing back life is cruel, death is better than life, forgetting is better than remembering

Question 10

Lilacs are the first flowers to ? , what are they describes as doing

Answer 10

Bloom in spring,
Related to bringing back memories, not necessarily good ones, related to poem by Whitman about Abe Lincoln dying
When lilacs last in the doorway bloomd

Question 11

Who is the speaker in the second half of first stanza

Answer 11

Countess Marie larisch

Question 12

What is Marie’s life like

Answer 12

Drank coffee, talked for an hour, she is not Russian she is from Lithuania making her a true German, cousin of archduke, went on sled and frightened , read in the night and go south for winter

Question 13

After all of Marie’s dialogue, what do we conclude about her life

Answer 13

It is solitary, sterile, and boring , monotonous

Question 14

Characterize the voice of the second stanza

Answer 14

God like, says son of man

Question 15

What does the voice say the son of man only knows

Answer 15

Heap of broken images , dead tree no shelter, crickets no relief, dry stone no water

Question 16

What does the red rock seem to provide and symbolize

Answer 16

Shade where there is none
If you come under I will show you something not of this world
Provides relief in a barren dry broken world

Question 17

What is the last negative image dealing with the red rock

Answer 17

Show you fear in a handful of dust

Question 18

What does the reference say and who is it from

Answer 18

Fresh blows the wind to my homeland, my Irish child where are you waiting
Wagners: Tristan and Isolde

Question 19

What is a hyacinth and where did it come from

Answer 19

Purple flower named after Greek hero
Tossing discus with Apollo and zephyr saw and was in love , so sad he blew a strong wind so the discus hit him in the head and killed hyacinth. Apollo then grew a flower out of his blood as a sign of love

Question 20

What is the relationship shown in this stanza

Answer 20

An unhealthy one
Whoever is speaking, boy or girl, is overwhelmed
Seems like things used to be different

Question 21

What is the last line of 3rd stanza

Answer 21

Waste and empty is the sea

Question 22

Who is lady in fourth stanza

Answer 22

Madam sosotris

Question 23

What are three signs that her readings are not reliable

Answer 23

Had a bad cold, one eyed merchant card with something on back blank because she is “forbidden” to see it, don’t find hanged man??

Question 24

What is pearls that were his eyes a reference to

Answer 24

The tempest song about?

Question 25

How is belladonna ironic and what image is paired with it

Answer 25

Means beautiful women but also poisonous plant

Lady of the rocks

Question 26

What is this stanza an allusion to ?

Answer 26

Chrome yellow about man who dresses up as drag and tells bogus fortunes

Question 27

What alludes to a drowning theme

Answer 27

Fear death by water

Question 28

I see crowds of people walking around in a ring

Answer 28

Relates to dantes , walking in a hell of our own making, going in circles doing the same damn thing over and over

Question 29

Mrs. Equitone means

Answer 29

Equal sound, maybe will make any sound just to get paid

Question 30

Tell her I bring the horoscope myself, dangerous these days

Answer 30

If someone else did horoscope it could be dangerous for client

Question 31

Unreal city refers to

Answer 31

London

Question 32

I had not thought death had undone so many

Answer 32

Living dead, dantes inferno

Question 33

Dead sound stroke of nine reminds you of?

Answer 33

Beginning of work day

Question 34

Each man fixed his feet before his eyes, sighs short and infrequent

Answer 34

No one is worth looking at

Hollow men

Question 35

Two places mentioned what are they and how does Elliot know about this world

Answer 35

King William street : business street
Saint Mary Woolnoth: church
Elliot was a banker

Question 36

Stetson may be ?

Answer 36

Ezra pound used to wear as a hat , maybe inside joke

Question 37

Ships at Mylae

Answer 37

Reference to the Punic wars fought between Rome and Carthage for economic reasons

Question 38

That corpse you planted last year in your garden has it begun to sprout , will it bloom this year or has the sudden frost disturbed it’s bed brings about what idea

Answer 38

Perversion of resurrection, life can come from death, can the life Coke back from the wasteland

Question 39

Oh keep the dog far hence

Answer 39

Egyptian star Sirius which is connected to the rise and fall of rivers, especially flooding the Nile
When there is a flood there can also be a drought

Question 40

You hypocrite… My….my….

Answer 40

Reader likeness brother

Comes from au lecture by Baudelaire

Question 41

Our most grave sin according to au lecture is

Answer 41

Empathy boredom indifference

Broken world with broken people, but we are just like them

Question 42

Can’t find the hanged man?

Answer 42

Can’t find the card associated with fertility