"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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| − | This section recalls Charles Baudelaire's poem [["Des Sept Viellards"]] in language. | + | This section recalls Charles Baudelaire's poem [["Des Sept Viellards"]] in language. |
| + | It speaks to a proliferation of men, each a twin of the other, who look like death, much to the horror of the author. It shows Eliot's concern that society is composed of the living dead, and is crippled by the infertility and senility thereof. | ||
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