Wasteland Part II Flashcards
The chair, like a burnished throne is an allusion to
Queen cleopatra in Antony and cleopatra
Cupidon is related to who
Cupid who is a manipulator of love
What is the theme of part II
Unfulfilling love relationships
What are some of the rich images we get
Candelabra, glitter of jewels, satin, ivory, colored glass
What suggests a not natural or not right thing
Synthetic perfumes
What does unguent mean
Oily
Drowned the sense , suggests what type of theme
A drowning theme
Troubled, confused …..
Seductive quality
What is the title of part two and what is it an allusion to
The Game of Chess , Thomas Middleton’s game of chess , women beware women
Laquearia is what and is an allusion to what, explain
It is a paneled ceiling
Reference to Virgil , when dido gives a feast to Aeneas who, she fell in love with
She made him fall in love with her and he interrupted his journey 8 years to stay in Carthage, he left her and she built funeral pyre and threw herself off of it, unfulfilling love relationship
Huge sea wood fed with copper burned green and orange ….in which sad light a carved dolphin swam above the antique mantel ……. Allusion to what and explain story
Metamorphoses , change if philomela
Pracne married to tereus, bring philomela to me and he rapes her in a cabin in the woods , cut her tongue encase afraid she would tell ,are tapestry to explain and procne got her out killed her son and cooked him and gave to tereus , then as running transformed into nightingale
Sylvan scene is from what , briefly describe
Paradise lost, Adam and Eve
Lucifer comes to the garden of Eden with intention to get back at God by luring them into sin, shows how beautiful garden is before he comes
Jug jug to dirty ears ?
Nightingale singing , the way it is interpreted pollutes it
Her hair spread out in fiery points glowed into words that would be savagely still
Even when she is still, she is still savage
My nerves are bad tonight yes bad, why don’t you say something speak…. What kind of feeling arises from this
Nervousness, paranoia neurotic, desperate
I think we are in rats alley where the dead men lost their bones
Trench warfare in world war one , in a bad spot
Nothing again nothing , what si the feeling we get from this
Exasperation
Those are the pearls that were his eyes suggest what about this relationship
It is a drowning one
Shakespeherian rug
Playwright who wrote tempest , music turning thoughts
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door
Waiting for someone to come to the door because I can’t handle being alone with you anymore
What relationship is this section modeled after
Tom and Viv , snooty upperclass couple, viv haigh wood had female problems hysteria, erratic behavior and he institutionalized her , married into a rich family but his feeling is drowning
Lil reminds you of what ? , name cut short is similar to ?
Lily, flower in the spring time , cut short like pregnancy
AlBert possibly refers to whose husband
Queen Victoria and when he died she went into deep depression
He’s been in the army four years hell want a food time , and if you don’t give it there is others who will, oh is there, something to that, then I’ll know who to thank….explain
Infidelity if she doesn’t keep him happy and give him what he wants he will stray, her friend seems like she would be one he would stray to
Hurry up please it’s time
Last call for drinks at bar
It’s them pills I took to bring it off she’s had five already and nearly died of young George … Explain
Abortion, had five kids almost six but nearly died of the last one
The chemist said it would be alright but I’ve never been the same….
Aspects of deception
Well that Sunday Albert was home they had a hot gammon
Hot ham, they had sex
Good night ladies good night sweet ladies goodnight goodnighg
Ophelia from hamlet female lead unfulfilling love relationship and she ends up drowning herself
