The Wasteland Part 1 Flashcards
What is the wasteland from and who suggested it
Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory
Wife vivienne haigh-wood
Where did the original epigraph come from and who rejected it
Heart of darkness
Ezra pound a poet and fundraiser of poems
Where is the epigraph actually from
Satyricon by Petronius and sibyl of cumae
What two languages are in the epigraph and what is in the dedication
Greek, Latin and Italian
Who is the dedication for and what does he call him and what is it a reference to
Ezra pond, he calls him the better craftsman from Dante purgatoro
The burial of the dead is based off of what
Anglican burial service
What was the original title
He doe the police in different voices from the book our mutual friend by Charles dickens, character sloppy
What does sibyl say , after she wished for long life but not youth
I want to die
Paradoxes in first stanza
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
Lilacs are the first flowers to ? , what are they describes as doing
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
Who is the speaker in the second half of first stanza
Countess Marie larisch
What is Marie’s life like
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
After all of Marie’s dialogue, what do we conclude about her life
It is solitary, sterile, and boring , monotonous
Characterize the voice of the second stanza
God like, says son of man
What does the voice say the son of man only knows
Heap of broken images , dead tree no shelter, crickets no relief, dry stone no water
What does the red rock seem to provide and symbolize
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
What is the last negative image dealing with the red rock
Show you fear in a handful of dust
What does the reference say and who is it from
Fresh blows the wind to my homeland, my Irish child where are you waiting
Wagners: Tristan and Isolde
What is a hyacinth and where did it come from
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
What is the relationship shown in this stanza
An unhealthy one
Whoever is speaking, boy or girl, is overwhelmed
Seems like things used to be different
What is the last line of 3rd stanza
Waste and empty is the sea
Who is lady in fourth stanza
Madam sosotris
What are three signs that her readings are not reliable
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??
What is pearls that were his eyes a reference to
The tempest song about?
How is belladonna ironic and what image is paired with it
Means beautiful women but also poisonous plant
Lady of the rocks
What is this stanza an allusion to ?
Chrome yellow about man who dresses up as drag and tells bogus fortunes
What alludes to a drowning theme
Fear death by water
I see crowds of people walking around in a ring
Relates to dantes , walking in a hell of our own making, going in circles doing the same damn thing over and over
Mrs. Equitone means
Equal sound, maybe will make any sound just to get paid
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself, dangerous these days
If someone else did horoscope it could be dangerous for client
Unreal city refers to
London
I had not thought death had undone so many
Living dead, dantes inferno
Dead sound stroke of nine reminds you of?
Beginning of work day
Each man fixed his feet before his eyes, sighs short and infrequent
No one is worth looking at
Hollow men
Two places mentioned what are they and how does Elliot know about this world
King William street : business street
Saint Mary Woolnoth: church
Elliot was a banker
Stetson may be ?
Ezra pound used to wear as a hat , maybe inside joke
Ships at Mylae
Reference to the Punic wars fought between Rome and Carthage for economic reasons
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
Perversion of resurrection, life can come from death, can the life Coke back from the wasteland
Oh keep the dog far hence
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
You hypocrite… My….my….
Reader likeness brother
Comes from au lecture by Baudelaire
Our most grave sin according to au lecture is
Empathy boredom indifference
Broken world with broken people, but we are just like them
Can’t find the hanged man?
Can’t find the card associated with fertility
