"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
From The Waste Land Wiki
(→Section Title) |
|||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
==Section Title== | ==Section Title== | ||
| + | |||
| + | <html> | ||
| + | <iframe width="950" height="475" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=205087301525898876143.0004ce52654ea33c0be11&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=p&ll=30.826781,46.40625&spn=35.397168,83.496094&z=4&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=205087301525898876143.0004ce52654ea33c0be11&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=p&ll=30.826781,46.40625&spn=35.397168,83.496094&z=4&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">The Fire Sermon</a> in a larger map</small> | ||
| + | </html> | ||
===[[Buddha]]=== | ===[[Buddha]]=== | ||
| Line 138: | Line 142: | ||
==Stanza 7== | ==Stanza 7== | ||
| − | |||
| − | |||
"This music crept by me upon the waters" | "This music crept by me upon the waters" | ||
| + | |||
| + | This quotation, which is being played on the gramophone, directly quotes [[''The Tempest'' (Act I Scene II)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | :Sitting on a bank, | ||
| + | :Weeping again the king my father’s wreck, | ||
| + | :This music crept by me upon the waters, | ||
| + | :Allaying both their fury and my passion | ||
| + | :With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it, | ||
| + | :Or it hath drawn me rather. | ||
==Stanza 8== | ==Stanza 8== | ||
| Line 169: | Line 180: | ||
===St. Augustine=== | ===St. Augustine=== | ||
| − | |||
| − | |||
To Carthage then I came | To Carthage then I came | ||
| + | |||
| + | This alludes to St. Augustine’s [[''Confessions'']]: “To Carthage then I came, where a cauldron of unholy loves sang all about mine ears." | ||
==Stanza 11== | ==Stanza 11== | ||
