Decoding "The Burial of the Dead"

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(Figure 5: Recurring Terms in the Biblical Allusions from "Order for the Burial of the Dead")
(Figure 4: Recurring Terms in the Biblical Allusions of "The Burial of the Dead")
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In order to read more deeply into "The Burial of the Dead," and to understand its relationship to Christianity, and to the Message of the Bible, the chart traces the usage of recurring terms in "The Burial of the Dead" to see what aspects of these passages are most important, and thus, most influential to Eliot.  These terms, "idols," "broken," "evil," and "forsaken" tell a very subversive story of Eliot's intent.
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In order to read more deeply into "The Burial of the Dead," and to understand its relationship to Christianity, and to the Message of the Bible, the chart traces the usage of recurring terms in "The Burial of the Dead" to see what aspects of these passages are most important, and thus, most influential to Eliot.  These terms, "idols," "broken," "evil," and "forsaken" tell a very dark story of Eliot's intent--one that accords with Old Testament Godly wrath.
  
 
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