Finding refrences to T.S. Poem.

[smerdyakov]

To be honest, I don't see any connections or expansion on themes from eliot's wasteland. Maybe the result of hypermodernity in Lud? But I don't think so -- that just seems like a stretch to find a connection that could (only very loosely) fit a theme from the poem. I don't think this is a bad thing; who'd want to read eliot's wasteland in prose form

But what sort of interpretations or references did you have in mind, DancingCorpse? I'd be interested to hear because I can't recall any.

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

I've come up with one, but it's pretty tenuous and it doesn't do anything to improve our understanding of the DT books beyond giving us a blinking moment of insignificant insight into what SK was thinking about when he plotted the series.

Eliot's The Wasteland drew a lot of ideas and imagery from the "Fisher-King" legends about a wounded, crippled King whose country goes barren because of his injury, drawing from the comparative-mythology studies of Jessie L. Weston in "From Ritual to Romance." The best-known example of Fisher-King mythology, according to all the sources, is the legend of King Arthur. Get it?


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