欣赏The Waste Land(1)---名字由来 The Waste Land 不是T. S. Eloit自创,说他是(bold-faced)厚颜无耻地保持了原名。 第一个传说:Fisher King是the waste land 的统治者,他是生活在 (the Grail legend)圣怀传说年代。 “命中注定说”的痛苦:他统治的地方注定要荒芜,一直到他的(sexual organs)生殖器受伤...
《荒原》(英语:The Waste Land)是英国诗人T·S·艾略特的作品。 1921年,由于精神原因,艾略特接受医生建议到瑞士洛桑易地疗养,《荒原》初稿的大部分内容都在这三个月的时间完成。 《荒原》全文分五个部分:“...
Eliot's poem The Waste Land is a pilgrimage in quest of an answer to the problem of desire-universal as well as personal-especially deviant sexuality, immoral behavior and their consequences. The traditional tags on the poem such as "a poem about Europe" and a poem about the "...
Following the epigraph is a dedication (added in a 1925 republication) that reads "ForEzra Pound:il miglior fabbro" Here Eliot is both quoting line 117 of Canto XXVI ofDante'sPurgatorio, the second cantica ofThe Divine Comedy, where Dante defines the troubadourArnaut Danielas "the best smith...
The epigraph at the beginning of the poem sets the scene and the prophetic tone with its reference to the Cumaean Sibyl, the most famous of the ancient prophetesses whom the Greeks and Romans consulted about the future. She is described at length in Virgil’sAeneid, in which she shows Aen...
The epigraph and dedication to The Waste Land showing some of the languages that Eliot used in the poem: Latin, Greek, English and Italian. The poem is preceded by a Latin and Greek epigraph from The Satyricon of Petronius. In English, it reads: "I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl of ...
” These parched words, written almost 100 years ago by TS Eliot, in The Waste Land, could easily double as an epigraph forPuce Mary’s The Drought. Starting with the title, the record concerns itself with a primordial lack: a rotting, shuddering collapse both personal and global. Though ...
” These parched words, written almost 100 years ago by TS Eliot, inThe Waste Land, could easily double as an epigraph forPuce Mary’sThe Drought. Starting with the title, the record concerns itself with aprimordial lack: a rotting, shuddering collapse both personal and global.Though rooted ...
” These parched words, written almost 100 years ago by TS Eliot, inThe Waste Land,could easily double as an epigraph forPuce Mary’sTheDrought. Starting with the title, the record concerns itself with aprimordial lack: a rotting, shuddering collapse both personal and global.Though rooted in...
67. Epigraph In literature, anepigraphis thequotation (or sometimes the phrase)at the beginning of a book or chapter. It’s entirely optional on the author’s part, but can offer a thematic direction for the reader. Example:InThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses Gertrude Stein’s “Yo...