T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, with Annotations (and other explanations) by Jonathan Vold

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Bosch’s Hell : Baby faces in the violet light (378-385)

378           A woman drew her long black hair out tight
379           And fiddled whisper music on those strings
380           And bats with baby faces in the violet light
381           Whistled, and beat their wings
382           And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
383           And upside down in air were towers
384           Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
385           And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, with Annotations (and other explanations) by Jonathan Vold

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The Waste Land, by Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1922, as published in Poems, 1909-1925 (Faber 1925)

Annotations and other explanations, Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold. All rights reserved.

Background photograph, Dead River at Illinois Beach State Park, Early Spring © 2006, 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

Au Lecteur (To the Reader), by Charles Baudelaire, 1867, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

Dans le Restaurant (In the Restaurant), by T. S. Eliot, 1920, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

El Desdichado (The Loser), by Gerard de Nerval, 1853, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

The Fire Sermon (Everything is Burning), by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, 483 BC, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

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ISBN-13: 978-0615755274
ISBN-10: 0615755275







Dedication

To my own Vivienne, wherever you are:

... not to be found in my obituary
Or in memories draped
by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken
by the lean solicitor
In my empty room












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