Thursday 5 August 2010

Something missing in Eliot's WASTELAND

The central theme of TS Eliot's THE WASTELAND being death wish, Eliot missed mentioning or quoting King Lear's best statement about death wish when he says to Cordelia who rouses him from his deep sleep, "You do me wrong to take me out of the grave", thinking he had been dead and buried. There is no mention or reference to Lear in THE WASTELAND, although quotations and allusions are sprinkled all over the poem which is indeed a hodgebodge of quotations

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