"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
From The Waste Land Wiki
(→Lines 60-63) |
(→Lines 66-68) |
||
| Line 279: | Line 279: | ||
Life is stagnated at this period--men are stuck mentally in the realm of death, and yet they live. Women seem incapable of associating and rejuvenating the men. In a sense, the whole of society is in limbo. | Life is stagnated at this period--men are stuck mentally in the realm of death, and yet they live. Women seem incapable of associating and rejuvenating the men. In a sense, the whole of society is in limbo. | ||
| − | ===Lines 66-68=== | + | ===Lines 66-68, London Architecture=== |
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, | Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, | ||
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours | To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours | ||
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. | With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. | ||
| + | |||
| + | King William Street extends from London Bridge into the City--the financial district. From water, to artifice. Saint Mary Woolnoth is a church in the City, dwarfed by office buildings, demonstrating the business-like indifference of religion. | ||
===Lines 69-76=== | ===Lines 69-76=== | ||
