"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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Here Eliot recalls Baudelaire's [["Au Lecteur"]]. As in "Des Sept Viellards," the poem bemoans the stagnancy of life, alluding to the river of the dead walking about, bored, lifeless, indulging in petty, damning sin. This is very much Eliot's message as well. However, here both poets seem to allude to a complicity with the reader of their poems. Having read the criticism, perhaps the reader is awakened from the stream of death. Revitalized. Maybe the poem is April, "stirring dull roots with spring rain/mixing memory and desire." | Here Eliot recalls Baudelaire's [["Au Lecteur"]]. As in "Des Sept Viellards," the poem bemoans the stagnancy of life, alluding to the river of the dead walking about, bored, lifeless, indulging in petty, damning sin. This is very much Eliot's message as well. However, here both poets seem to allude to a complicity with the reader of their poems. Having read the criticism, perhaps the reader is awakened from the stream of death. Revitalized. Maybe the poem is April, "stirring dull roots with spring rain/mixing memory and desire." | ||
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