Farewell words of Ophelia, in her madness, to the ladies of the court of the King of Denmark

"Thanks" in Cockney.

Abortion pills.

Pharmacist.

Released from military service.

The barman is telling everyone to get out.

Folk song.

"The Tempest."

In medieval art, the dolphin was associated with love.

God of love.

The sound of the nightingale.

Mentions of abuse.

The panels of a coffered ceiling.

The first ecounter of Enea and Didone in Virgil's "Aeneid".

Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra".

Satyrical play of Thomas Middleton "A game at chess".

Sanskrit word, "peace".

Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedie".

"The Prince of Aquitaine, of the ruined tower", a line which Eliot refers to its source in the sonnet ‘El Desdichado’ (‘The Disinherited’) by Gérard de Nerval.

A line from the anonymous poem Pervigilium Veneris, which ends with a reference to Philomela.

Last line of Canto 26 of Dante's Purgatorio, in which he meets Arnauld Daniel.

Nursery rhyme.

The Fisherman King.

Count Ugolino, XXXIII of Dante's Inferno.

Paolo and Francesca, second circle of Dante's Inferno.

Imperative, "control".

Hero of Shakespeare's play.

Imperative "be compassionate".

Imperative "give".

Holy mountain in the Himalaya range.

River Ganges.

The betrayal of Judas.

The church bells of London.

The image of the knights looking for the Holy Grail is introduced.

Bertrand Russell told Eliot that he had dreamt of London collapsing.

Jesus, God or perhaps Tiresias.

God’s instruction to Moses, to relieve the thirst of the Israelites, having led them through the desert.

According to the Bible, the earth shook when Christ died.

The first scene of the last part of the poem represents the cruxification of Christ.

The Confessions of St Augustine.

Seaside resort on the Thames.

Moorgate is at the heart of the financial district of the City.

Two riverside districts, on the Thames west of London.

Homer’s Tiresias in Hades, where he is consulted by Odysseus.

The history of the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

London suburb.

The lament of the Rhine-Maidens in Wagner's Die Götterdämmerung.

The Thames River at Greenwich, downstream from London. The Isle of Dogs is the name given to the riverbank opposite Greenwich.

Church in London.

London Street.

Near the river at London Bridge.

Street in London.

Reference to "The Tempest."

Eliot refers to "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith.

Breasts of animals.

Every single gesture is mechanic, both the prophet and the narrating voice know what will happen becuase it's inevitable.

Undergarments.

Blind prophet who lived both as a woman and a man.

Hotel in Brighton.

Commercial hotel in London.

Everyday.

"Cost, insurance and freight". The documents of ownership and transport would be handed to the purchaser in exchange for a bank draft payable on sight.

Turkish.

Legend of Tereus and Philomela.

"And O those children's voices, singing in the cupola!" "Parsifal" by Paul Verlaine.

A character in the "Sweeney" poems by Eliot.

Only sounds are heard, he can't see anything in front of him.

"The Tempest" Ferdinand is thinking of his father.

To find redemption, the Fisher King seeks the fish, synonymous with the Grail. If he ever will fish something is doubtful.

The only living being is associated with rubbish.

"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.

The French name for Lake Geneva.

"Prothalamion" by Edmund Spenser, in which he celebrates love.

Sense of drought, desolation.

Begun in spring 1921. Eliot incorporated in constructing "The Waste Land", this is considered to be the first part he wrote with a sense of the poem as a whole in mind. The Fire Sermon was preached by the Buddha against the fires of lust, anger, envy and the other passions that consume men.

This passage reminds the reader that death will take us all and nothing will be left of us.

Not Jewish.

Energy that brings destruction.

It was written while Eliot was at Dr Vittoz’s sanatorium in Lausanne from mid-November to late December 1921.

The great naval victory of the Romans over the Carthaginians in the First Punic War.

"My fellow, my brother!" from Baudelaire's poem "Au Lecteur" (To the Reader) in "Les Fleurs du Mal."

City church.

Links London Bridge to the centre of the City of London.

Dante, Inferno iii, 55–7 (the unhappy spirits), quoting ‘si lunga tratta/di gente, ch’io non avrei mai creduto,/che morte tanta n’avesse disfatta’ (‘such a long stream of people, that I should never have believed that death had undone so many’).

"Les Sept Vieillards’ (‘The Seven Old Men’) by Charles Baudelaire, here it's London.

Madame Sosostris.

Tarot card.

Tarot card.

Frequently associated with Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings.

Tarot card which symbolizes a traveller struggling with water.

From Shakespeare's "The tempest", a passage in which the spirit of Ariel is singing to Ferdinand about his father's drowning.

Crome Yellow (1921) by Aldous Huxley. Madame Sosostris is a fortune teller and tarot reader.

"Empty and desolate is the sea". Taken from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde".

"Fresh blows the wind to home, my Irish child, where are you lingering?" From Wagner, "Tristan and Isolde".

Symbol for fertility rituals.

Only the present exists, the shadow of the past is behind and the shadow of the evening can't be met yet.

Both life and the poem, whose nature is fragmented

Eliot’s note refers us to Ezekiel ii, I. God addresses his prophet, ‘Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.’ Ezekiel is told of his mission, to preach the coming of the Messiah to a rebellious, unbelieving people.

Eliot took inspiration from the sledding incident of the Countess Marie Larisch.

"I'm not Russian at all, I come from Lithuania, pure German" Marie is recalling her childhood.

A public garden in Munich.

Forgetful because it covers, it conceals everything.

Lake-resort south of Munich, visited by Eliot in August 1911.

This passage is taken from Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon.

"The better craftsman". Eliot and Pound were not only collaborators, but also friends. This passage refers to Dante Alighieri's tribute to the Provencal poet Arnauld Daniel in Canto 26 of the Purgatorio.

The Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess of Apollo who was located at the Oracle of Cumae. Granted a wish from Apollo, the sibyl, who is confined to a jar because her body is starting to melt, she had asked for as many years of life as there are grains in a handful of sand.

The word "Sibyl" derives from the Greek word "sibylla" meaning prophetess.