TS Eliot and The Waste Land

[love_leah]

This week's focus was TS Eliot's "The Waste Land". Before I start to rant about what parts mean and what images and themes are evident in Eliot's poem, it is important to understand certain frames of reference Eliot uses. Once you understand these, it is easier to comprehend and henceforth the poem becomes,perhaps, a little clearer. First, we have

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[htorrens]

i remember reading The Waste Land, and just assuming the dry bones reference was biblical, since it just mentioned biblical imagery a little before then, i just figured it was.... i can't think of the exact reference right now though.