![]() ![]() What Eliot tries to highlight is the essential misery and doom of that condition- april being the 'cruellest month' because, although it brings rebirth of the land, it can only ever lead to another death. So I'd love to read more thoughts by you people!Īm just reading The State of the Art there's another line from the poem:Īs memory serves, much of the waste land is inspired by Frazier's 'The Golden Bough' and its study of vegetative gods/deities such as Osiris, Adonis and Christ, ie- divine beings subject to seasonal death and rebirth- a mythological motif that occurs in just about every culture since the birth of agriculture. Those are just ideas put in to words that might not totally grasp what I mean/feel. I strongly feel that Horza (from Consider Phlebas is Phlebas and his fear of the Culture might be symbolized by a fear of drowning. ![]() O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,Ĭonsider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. He passed the stages of his age and youth PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,įorgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell The lines come from the same paragraph in the Waste land: I guess you are right about the war that links both books and the Waste Land (yes? I'm also not too sure what the Waste Land is about - but then, being poetry, it is about many things, and war, to me, seems to be one of them).Īnd yea, Banksie likes it, I think so too. ![]()
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