AAFTER US In this poem, the poet uses a surplus of imagery to allow the reader to fully see what she is trying to get us to picture. In the first line, she talks about how rain, which can be destructive or helpful, is seeping into a room where books and other material things reside. In the lines to follow, she writes about how everything that flourished under the sun, turned away to try and find the light that they so desperately need. This shows the destructive side to rain because it paints the picture of a dark day with rain falling and silencing all activities that happen during the day. In the second paragraph, the poet writes about a portrait, which has sketches of boats and barns and this creates the image of a perfect utopia where everything is peaceful and nothing has disturbed it. The paragraph that follows this peaceful picture, is where the foreboding and evil rain begins to make its appearance again. She writes about how everything that was ever thought of or invented or t...
TThe Waste Land The first phase of 'The Waste Land' is referred to as The Burial of the lifeless which refers to the burial of the dead, fertility gods in Frazer's The Golden Beer and the burial provider in the Christian Church. In both those cases, death is observed by way of re-birth, however within the contemporary desolate tract rebirth could be very dubious, and those stay in a degree of life-in-loss of life. The situation is presented thru four scenes of The Burial of the dead "The commonplace notice in these kind of scenes is fear; the assessment arises from the various attitudes towards fear. The theme is first said in the famous starting strains, the comment on the cruelty of spring time, the pain of new lifestyles stirring after the torpor of iciness, and we skip to a memory of summer season coming with a bath of rain, after which sunlight and an hour of casual communicate in the Hofgarten at Munich". within the second scene we skip through Ezekiel's...