The Connell Guide to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Advanced Study Guide) by Seamus Perry

Author:Seamus Perry [Perry, Seamus]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Connell Guides
Published: 2016-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Mylae was a famous battle in the Punic Wars fought between Rome and Carthage, in which the Romans were victorious: it is the first of several glimpses of Carthage, implying a parallel between the recent horrors of Europe and the calamities of antiquity. The speaker’s grisly questions return to the perversions of fertility with which the poem began, heightened now by the unhinged incongruity of asking such crazy things of an old lag from your time in the forces whom you spot while walking to work. What could be more normally English than a chat about gardening? But Eliot repeatedly finds things that disturb lurking deep beneath the dulled shapes of the reassuringly ordinary. ‘The Burial of the Dead’ is partly about things that won’t stay buried, such as corpses and desires and memories; and if we are tempted to regard all this with a sympathetic but clinical disinterest then the last line, taken from Baudelaire, would persuade us otherwise: “You! Hypocrite reader! My fellow man! My brother!”

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