"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot is in five
sections. Most of the sections were okay
to understand, but one section in particular was hard for me to even read
through. IV "Death by Water"
is the shortest section by far and I had to read through it a good five times
before I understood it all. I think
Phlebas is dead or dying and is having his life flash before his eyes as he "[Enters]
the whirlpool" of death. The last
stanza is speaking directly to a higher power and asking if the higher power
would consider Phlebas in a place on high.
"The Fire Sermon" was very ironic. A woman and man have coitus outside of
wedlock and then the woman looks out her window at a church where it is a sin
to have intercourse outside of wedlock.
I have no idea if these poems were meant to be funny at the time they
were written, but this particular one seems quite comical to me.
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