"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations

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(Lines 19-30, Biblical Rhetoric)
(Decoding "The Burial of the Dead" by Courtney Handy)
 
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world, as it emerges from the ruins of social decay.
 
world, as it emerges from the ruins of social decay.
  
Hesitantly, the frequently occurring terms will be:
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I will look specifically at tone words and how frequently they occur, versus how the Biblical allusions lend to an understanding of this
  
1. "life"
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section of the poem.
 
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2. "death"
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3. "eternal"
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4. "end"
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5. "mercy"
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6. "glory"
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7. "resurrection"
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8. "fear"
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These terms occur frequently in the Biblical texts, and also apply directly to Eliot's complex
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notion of the world.
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==Title: "The Burial of the Dead"==
 
==Title: "The Burial of the Dead"==

Latest revision as of 16:54, 11 December 2012

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