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

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Husband and Wife : Talk of wind and nothingness (112-127)

112           'Speak to me.  Why do you never speak.  Speak.
113               “What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
114           'I never know what you are thinking.  Think.'

115           I think we are in rats' alley
116           Where the dead men lost their bones.

117           'What is that noise?'

118                                         The wind under the door.
119           'What is that noise now?  What is the wind doing?'
120                                         Nothing again nothing.
121                                                                       'Do
122           'You know nothing?  Do you see nothing?  Do you remember
123           'Nothing?'

124                I remember
125           Those are pearls that were his eyes.
126           'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'
127                                                                            But
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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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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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