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

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187           A rat crept softly through the vegetation
188           Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
189           While I was fishing in the dull canal
190           On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
191           Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
192           And on the king my father's death before him
193           White bodies naked on the low damp ground
194           And bones cast in a little low dry garret,
195           Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.
196           But at my back from time to time I hear
197           The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring
198           Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
199           O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter
200           And on her daughter
201           They wash their feet in soda water
202           Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!

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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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