The Waste Land
Title : Different voices (0.1)
Credits : The poet relates (0.2)
Epigraph : To be or not to be (0.3)
Dedication : To a living escort (0.4)
I. The Burial of the Dead
The Earth Section : Characters (0.5)
For Those That Follow : A spring pilgrimage (1-7)
Ambiguous Identities : A knot of dried up roots (8-12)
Melancholy Marie : When we were children (13-18)
Son of Man : Come in under the shadow (19-26)
The Prophets : Separate shadows (27-30)
The Hyacinth Prince : Remembering (31-40)
One Who Follows The Sea : Oed’ und leer (41-42)
Madame Sosostris : A wicked pack of cards (43-47)
The Tarot Dealer : Look! (48-51)
The One-Eyed Merchant : Failing to see (52-59)
The Flowing Crowd : An unreal city (60-63)
Dante’s Ninth : A phenomenon (64-68)
Stetson : Seen in the crowd (69-73)
The Reader’s Brother : You! (74-76)
II. A Game of Chess
The Air Section : Words (76.5)
Cleopatra’s Chambers : Peeping Cupids (77-85)
Strange Perfumes : Stirred by the air (86-96)
The Rape of Philomela : Walls that talk (97-110)
The Nervous Speaker : A cast of characters (111)
Husband and Wife : Talk of wind and nothingness (112-127)
Hamlet’s Rag : Dying words in disguise (128-130)
Outside the Chambers : “What shall we do?” (131-138)
The Maid’s Story: ‘Tis time, ‘tis time (139-141)
The Maid’s Story, Continued: Lil and Albert (142-161)
Closing Time : The bartender’s last call (162-169)
Ophelia and the Pub Farewells : More dying words (170-172)
III. The Fire Sermon
The Fire Section : Songs (172.5)
The River Thames : A song by the waters (176-184)
At the River’s Edge : A rattling sound (185-195)
Sweeney Revived : Background noises (196-198)
Voices in the Dome : Soldiers and nightingales (199-206)
From Dawn to Noon: A foggy encounter (207-209)
From Lunch to Weekend : A demotic invitation (210-214)
Tiresias : At the violet hour (215-218)
The Man-Woman Arbiter : One who can see (219)
The Sailor and the Typist : The scene perceived (220-234)
Assault & Indifference : The act foresuffered (235-246)
Exit Tiresias : Walking backwards (247-248)
After Tiresias : Olivia’s song (249-256)
The “Sometimes” Music : Ariel’s song revisited (257-265)
Thames-Daughters : The river-nymph song (266-272)
East of London : A song suppressed (273-278)
Elizabeth and Leicester : A rendezvous (279-291)
The Richmond Nymph : River blues (292-295)
The Moorgate Nymph : Epigraphs and epitaphs (296-299)
The Margate Nymph : An end as a beginning (300-306)
Augustine’s Confessions : Carthage’s singing cauldron (307)
Buddha’s Fire Sermon : The eye on fire (308)
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount : The eye’s inner light (309-311)
IV. Death By Water
The Water Section : A translation (311.5)
Phlebas the Phoenician : Dans le Restaurant (312-321)
V. What the Thunder Said
The Spirit Section : Understanding (321.5)
After... : A Good Friday culmination (322-330)
Thirty Good Lines : The water-dripping song (331-359)
The Voyagers’ Visitor : Another with us (360-366)
Falling Towers : A world turned upside down (367-377)
Bosch’s Hell : Baby faces in the violet light (378-385)
The Chapel Perilous : The wind’s home (386-391)
Late Good Friday : A rooster crows (392-395)
Then Spoke The Thunder : Da, da, da (396-400)
What The Thunder Said to Humans : Give (401-410)
What Thunder Told The Demons : Sympathize (411-417)
Thunder To The Lesser Gods : Be calm (418-426)
Between DA and Shantih: Falling down (427-429)
The Mad Prince : Shored against my ruins (430-432)
Final Thunder : Shantih, repeated (433-434)
