T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land"
Beginning of paper
In T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land you perceive many images from the
writing style he uses. In lines 386 - 399 he writes:
In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, ....
Middle of paper
.... line 386, “In this decayed hole among the mountains,” probably
refers to an empty grave that brings images of death and the end of life,
or possibly the beginning of a new life to mind. The grave is lit by
moonlight, possibly referring to the white light many people see when they
have near-death experiences. You get a creepy feeling when the wind blows
and makes the “grass sing” in line 387. In these first three lines it
talks of tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, ....
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Word count: 492
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
