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

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292                'Trams and dusty trees.
293                Highbury bore me.  Richmond and Kew
294                Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
295                Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.'

296                'My feet are at Moorgate and my heart
297                Under my feet.  After the event
298                He wept.  He promised "a new start."
299                I made no comment.  What should I resent?'

300                'On Margate Sands.
301                I can connect
302                Nothing with nothing.
303                The broken fingernails of dirty hands.
304                My people humble people who expect
305                Nothing.'
306                                    la la

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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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