"What the Thunder Said" Annotations
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What is that sound high in the air | What is that sound high in the air | ||
Murmur of maternal lamentation | Murmur of maternal lamentation | ||
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Who are those hooded hordes swarming | Who are those hooded hordes swarming | ||
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370 | Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370 | ||
Ringed by the flat horizon only | Ringed by the flat horizon only | ||
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What is the city over the mountains | What is the city over the mountains | ||
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air | Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air | ||
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Vienna London | Vienna London | ||
Unreal | Unreal | ||
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| + | Eliot said that this was inspired by Hermann Hesse's ''A Look into Chaos: Three Essays'' which discussed the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Of course, collapse of society and its consecutive spiral into chaos is a major concern of Eliot's. | ||
==Stanza 5== | ==Stanza 5== | ||
