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====Things to address====
* The extreme distance of the final few paragraphs (the Ganges, India) from the rest of the poem.  Eliot seems to be looking elsewhere, eastwards, for renewal to the wasteland he sees in Europe.
* The inclusion of not only Europe, but parts of Africa and Asia as well, under the umbrella of the wasteland.  Eliot may not just be talking about London.  "Unreal City" begins to apply not only to London but to Alexandria, to Vienna, to Athens, etc. 
* Imperialism.  Good or bad?  Eliot seems to advocate it because it will draw in new life that the British empire seems to have lost.  Does this sound crazy?
(Rebekah 11/28/2012 3:15)

So, a focus on imperialism.  While the map features a heavy clustering of locations in Britain proper (mostly within London), it is actually fairly spread out.  There seems to be a conscious effort made to draw in influences from elsewhere for some of the richest imagery.  Imperialism, then, as less a destructive obsession with expansion and dominance, but as an attempt to find new life for civilization elsewhere... (Rebekah 12/03/2012 9:05am)

That the ending of the poem focuses not on the English world as we know it best, but rather on the east, on new ideas, on a sort of eastern blessing, is quite telling of where the poem has led, what it is implying.  (Rebekah 12/03/2012 9:07am)


==Log==
Moved from "The Waste Land image map" to "Walking the Waste Land," because it simply made more sense to name the page appropriately with the map.  -Rebekah 11/28/2012 3:06pm

Started "Things to address" section of this discussion page. -Rebekah 11/28/2012 3:11pm