Wasteland Part II

Question 1

The chair, like a burnished throne is an allusion to

Answer 1

Queen cleopatra in Antony and cleopatra

Question 2

Cupidon is related to who

Answer 2

Cupid who is a manipulator of love

Question 3

What is the theme of part II

Answer 3

Unfulfilling love relationships

Question 4

What are some of the rich images we get

Answer 4

Candelabra, glitter of jewels, satin, ivory, colored glass

Question 5

What suggests a not natural or not right thing

Answer 5

Synthetic perfumes

Question 6

What does unguent mean

Answer 6

Oily

Question 7

Drowned the sense , suggests what type of theme

Answer 7

A drowning theme

Question 8

Troubled, confused …..

Answer 8

Seductive quality

Question 9

What is the title of part two and what is it an allusion to

Answer 9

The Game of Chess , Thomas Middleton’s game of chess , women beware women

Question 10

Laquearia is what and is an allusion to what, explain

Answer 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Sylvan scene is from what , briefly describe

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Jug jug to dirty ears ?

Answer 13

Nightingale singing , the way it is interpreted pollutes it

Question 14

Her hair spread out in fiery points glowed into words that would be savagely still

Answer 14

Even when she is still, she is still savage

Question 15

My nerves are bad tonight yes bad, why don’t you say something speak…. What kind of feeling arises from this

Answer 15

Nervousness, paranoia neurotic, desperate

Question 16

I think we are in rats alley where the dead men lost their bones

Answer 16

Trench warfare in world war one , in a bad spot

Question 17

Nothing again nothing , what si the feeling we get from this

Answer 17

Exasperation

Question 18

Those are the pearls that were his eyes suggest what about this relationship

Answer 18

It is a drowning one

Question 19

Shakespeherian rug

Answer 19

Playwright who wrote tempest , music turning thoughts

Question 20

Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door

Answer 20

Waiting for someone to come to the door because I can’t handle being alone with you anymore

Question 21

What relationship is this section modeled after

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Lil reminds you of what ? , name cut short is similar to ?

Answer 22

Lily, flower in the spring time , cut short like pregnancy

Question 23

AlBert possibly refers to whose husband

Answer 23

Queen Victoria and when he died she went into deep depression

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Hurry up please it’s time

Answer 25

Last call for drinks at bar

Question 26

It’s them pills I took to bring it off she’s had five already and nearly died of young George … Explain

Answer 26

Abortion, had five kids almost six but nearly died of the last one

Question 27

The chemist said it would be alright but I’ve never been the same….

Answer 27

Aspects of deception

Question 28

Well that Sunday Albert was home they had a hot gammon

Answer 28

Hot ham, they had sex

Question 29

Good night ladies good night sweet ladies goodnight goodnighg

Answer 29

Ophelia from hamlet female lead unfulfilling love relationship and she ends up drowning herself