"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | ||
| + | ==[[Decoding "The Burial of the Dead"]] by Courtney Handy== | ||
| + | [[Decoding "The Burial of the Dead"]] is an original essay in progress which looks at the hidden | ||
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| + | Biblical language of "The Burial of the Dead" using Biblical allusions used in the Anglican service | ||
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| + | [[Order for the Burial of the Dead]], as well as the Biblical allusions central to the section | ||
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| + | itself, as catalogued below. By concentrating on frequently occurring terms in these Biblical | ||
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| + | allusions, and cross-referencing them, as well as by a literary comparison of the "Order" and of | ||
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| + | the "Burial," the essay attempts to address Eliot's complex vision of the future of the Western | ||
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| + | world, as it emerges from the ruins of social decay. | ||
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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 | ||
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| + | section of the poem. | ||
==Title: "The Burial of the Dead"== | ==Title: "The Burial of the Dead"== | ||
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===Lines 19-30, Biblical Rhetoric=== | ===Lines 19-30, Biblical Rhetoric=== | ||
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow | What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow | ||
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::::enough to dare to listen, but when Ezekiel hears God's message, it is only one of woe. | ::::enough to dare to listen, but when Ezekiel hears God's message, it is only one of woe. | ||
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| + | :::: [[Luke 22]], among others, also calls Jesus the "son of man" so its an even greater burden than prophecy--it could be literal self-sacrifice for the truth. | ||
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"Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!" | "Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!" | ||
| − | This is an excerpt | + | This is an excerpt John Websters '''The White Devil.''' This section is part of a mother's lamentation about her son's murder by her other son. Fratricide is also a word used to describe the war. In this case, the betrayal that wrought about the fratricide was both sexual and political. |
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===Line 76, Baudelaire=== | ===Line 76, Baudelaire=== | ||
"You! hypocrite lecteur! ''- mon semblable, - mon frere''!" | "You! hypocrite lecteur! ''- mon semblable, - mon frere''!" | ||
