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

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60             Unreal City,
61             Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
62             A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
63             I had not thought death had undone so many.
64             Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
65             And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
66             Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
67             To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
68             With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
69             There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying 'Stetson!
70             'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
71            'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
72             'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
73             'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
74             'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men,
75             'Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again!
76            'You! hypocrite lecteur! —mon semblable, —mon frère!'

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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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