Rock that followed
rock in the desert which springs forth water is chirst however the rock lacks water in the waste land.
80 Matching Annotations
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lean solicitor
recompensing solicitor some one who gives instead of take.
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age of prudence can never retract
no customes can take away.
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da and asked, "Have you understood?" They said, "We have understood, you said to us, `dayadhvam,' `be compassionate
the demons as demons interpret da, the same word given to the men as compassion because they know they lack it and thus need it because they lack.
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heavenly voice of thunder repeats
heavenly voice of God reiterates.
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da (and asked) "Have you understood?"
as direction he say to give as in be giving as in be generous and kind.
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`damyata,
to have control over one self or power over ones actions.
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The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightenings lightened the world
Eliot modifies this line in his poem but the assosiation is created between the bible and the waate lands
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pillars of heaven tremble
pillar is a bridge between heaven and earth and trembling pillars represent an instability possibly between the two.
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thunder of his power who can understand
his will
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north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing
widen and create the earth.
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the thunder: the voice of God
the thunder invokes God and its sound is his voice.
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renewal
the dictionary definition means to re-establish something so the Ganga are the rivers waters which flow over life and bring new meaning to the world or end Christianity only out bring new life renewal is a common theme throughout the poem
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voice of the thunder was heard
the thunder as a voice
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set of bones
bones is used a bodies here so in Eliot might use it in a similar way and use dry bones in a way that resembles people without life or souls.
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the black hand
character in the grail legend who kills knights
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brahma-wheel
God of the triumvirate. The god Vishnu preserves the world but Shiva is necessary to re-create it presumably in a better version\iteration so life comes from death.
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Wheel of Fortune (a Tarot card); (3) an image for life itself
Wheel of fortune image for life itself.
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willows
the perfect picture of nature crying
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strewed flowers
water llies?
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depravities
life experience corruption
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rebirth is exhausted
no more in life.
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he becomes divested of passion
Dionysian idea that we should forgo pleasure or that life is pain.
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for the body, conceives an aversion for things tangible
for the sensible world
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conceives an aversion for eye-consciousness
for clairvoyance an acceptance.
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With the fire of passion, say I, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation; with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief, and despair are they on fire.
fire of human life.
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This game of king, queen, and knight
weak connection-- not enough supporting material.
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distracted lady
Is the distracted lady clairvoyant from earlier?
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duty to carry out revenge against Claudiu
He is not mortally obliged to do this.
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"tereu!", of course recalls the name of the rapist king in the story of Philomela
could it also possibly refer to a cry and the second act of rape as in turning the pleasant song of the songbird into something negative as Heinemann mentions turning mixing joy with sorrow.
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Brave prick-song!
singing about the rape and allusion to poetry he writes about the play which further alluded to the poem "Metamorphoses" itself.
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"Jug jug" are words often used in Elizabethan poetry for the nightingale's song, and as slang for sexual intercourse
so two invocations one is the song of a nightingale and sexual inter course the meaning are intertwined .
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pressed against a thorn
In hurt?
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changed into birds
Escaped through transformation.
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roasting on skewers over a fire
Made a meal out of his corpus.
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(by Tereus), Itys
Itys resembles the father and killed for Tereus' crime.
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Satan sees this "sylvan scene" as, having escaped Hell and passed through Chaos, he approaches Paradise
Form Paradise lost when Stain approaches Paradise and causes the fall of man.
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"lighted lamps hang down from the fretted roof of gold, [i.e., laquearia] and flaming torches drive out the night"
line in conversation with Eliot's line
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falls in love quickly
DIdo falls in love with Aeneus.
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Cupid, whom she tells to arouse Dido's desire for Aeneus' image
Plot detail.
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Juno, Queen of Heaven
Hera in Greek mythology.
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Troy
setting for myth of the Trojan War.
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Aeneid
poem by Virgil.
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yonder box
exotic box of wealth and mystery-- filled with jewels.
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casket India's
originally toilet box later jewel casket
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Arabia
MYSTERIOUS EXOTIC AND ALLUSIVE TO PERFUME AND SPICE.
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each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the Goddess with the glittering spoil
cornucopia fills with splendor
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mock-heroic poem
mock heroic qualities.
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Belinda's where she sits primping on the day of her "rape"
events included in the story.
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Where Philomel gave up
moment she gave in.
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divers-colored fans
bright colored fans.
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As amorous of their strokes
sexual connotation as in sexual strokes. the sea is a women and the ores resembles feature of her lover.
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flutes kept stroke
rhythm
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The winds were lovesick
Filled with an alluring scent.
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burnished throne
seat on a flat-bottomed freight-boat.
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and their marriage as the reduction of a real war to a mere game between lover
Marriage form of peaceful conflict resolution.
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together playing a game of chess -- signifying the rational basis of their love
game of chess signifies rationality.
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two ancient rival kingdoms of Milan and Naples are united in the promised marriage of Prince Ferdinand and Prospero's daughter, Miranda
The Tempestt reference
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mortality -- for example, Igmar Bergman's film, The Seventh Seal, shows life as a chess game with Death
moral qualities in relevance to death and whether you will go to heaven or hell.
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rape, and in double entendre imaged as a chess game
the rape imaged as a chess games.
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duke's seduction of her daughter-in-law Bianca
Duke seduces her daughter. She is pure.
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dole
grief.
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For with his nails he'll dig them up again
keep away from where the dog can dig up or get to the dead.
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Deliver my soul from the sword
akin to deliver me my load form sin into salvation.
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Dog star
Brightest star in the sky.
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profits of trade
economically provoked warfare.
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Gulf of Milazzo
Town in Sicily, Italy.
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Eliot's work-place
use of every day objects.
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Saint Mary Woolnoth
Anglican church. possibly catholic.
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rush hour
Highest volume of commute.
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eternal air tremble
unpleasant but categorized with a sigh so not awful unbearable.
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Hell's first circle
Home for virtuous pagans and the unbaptized.
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behind it came so long a line of people that I should never have believed death had undone so many
cause the ruin of.
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who cared only meanly for themselves
We should care for other for our own salvation.
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There Dante sees a vast number
painfully immense.
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Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant
allusion to the hang man and thus acceptance of what is. the "what is" well become clear further along in the poem.
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Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rûves
city full of opportunity and possibility hope swarming assumedly with people.
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Belladonna
Italian.
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illusory storm
possibly turmoil created by the mind.
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visionary power, by which man can gain access to a universal memory
collective meaning through experience.
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