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"The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot, page 8

Check out page 8 of my comics adaptation of "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot!

Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: A look into the heart of light!

[accounting4taste42]

T.S. ELIOT AND PRESENCE

[TL:DR as I age and I am "Being" differently, more present, different poems of his speak to me differently yet still eloquently]

I was 15 when I discovered the poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot within the *Norton Anthology of Poetry.* Nearly 50 years later, I'm reading him completely differently. Back then, I was smitten by "The Hollow Men," which can still be read as quintessential teenage angst:

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Shape without form, shade without colour,

Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed

With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom

Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost

Violent souls, but only

As the hollow men

The stuffed men.

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It ends famously, in italics:

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This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

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I discovered that I had to memorize Eliot before I could begin to make sense of his writings.

Next came "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." I created a verb, "to Prufrock," which is to take the notion of the most modest of molehills and turn it into something so massive and overwhelming that to take that action would disturb the universe, which could not be dared, because it wouldn't have been worth it and because the would-be protagonist was so insignificant anyway that even if he attempted to do so it would have been completely misunderstood.

But then, glossing over "The Waste Land" until much later, I found "Burnt Norton," the first of his 4 Quartets. I endeavored to memorize the complete works of T.S. Eliot before I graduated high school, but after much of "Burnt Norton," my brain was full.

But it is "Burnt Norton" that still speaks to me today, as it is about presence, and time. It was written after a walk through the garden outside the mansion of the name with Emily Hale, "The Hyacinth Girl" of "The Waste Land," written for her, the woman he did not marry, but was nonetheless in love with whom he had created her to be 15 years earlier. We create the idea of who the other people are in our life. He was in love at the time, he would later write, not with Ms. Hale, but rather with the "ghost" of the Emily he knew decades earlier.

It begins:

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Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

Only in a world of speculation.

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden. My words echo

Thus, in your mind.

But to what purpose

Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves

I do not know.

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A lament, and yet acknowledging how fruitless it is to mourn the road not taken or a future the will not be embraced.

He ends the first section of the poem:

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Time past and time future

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

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*Always* present.

Later in the poem:

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,

But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,

Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,

Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,

There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.

And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.

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He can't place it in time because it is always present -- the still point of the turning world, the in-between of past and future.

The second part ends:

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Time past and time future

Allow but a little consciousness.

To be conscious is not to be in time

But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,

The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,

The moment in the draughty church at smokefall

Be remembered; involved with past and future.

Only through time time is conquered.

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There is more to the poem. He brings in religion and damnation, evoking Dante. Some might read my perceptions of these poems and paraphrase a line from "Prufrock" and protest:

"That is not what he meant at all

That is not it at all."

But "The Hollow Men", as brilliant as it still is with its memorable haunting lines, nor longer speaks for me. For decades I identified with Mr. Prufrock, and while it is still an amazing poem which I likely will still be able to recite when I can't remember my own name, he no longer resembles me, nor I him.

But now, as I aspire towards Being, and Presence, I am conscious to not be in time, for all emotion is temporal, either as laments or nostalgia for the past, or as apprehension or excitement for the future. To be fully present is to be at the still point of the turning world....

[marypickfords]

Girl with Hyacinths (Hasse Ekman, 1950)

[memoldy]

✨💕GNAWING AT THE IRON BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE 💕✨

[ill-loveyouthroughthestars]

I NEED SOPHIE BECKETT TO BE IRISH !!!!

This is my Roman Empire, i have dreamt of this and I have multiple reasons

1. It will tie into History and how Irish people have always been considered an outcast in society for centuries especially before the famine

2. When I read the book all I could hear was an Irish!Sophie with her accent, her attitude, her antics and her random quotes are so Irish I just love (I also feel with this Irish attitude it could bring humour to their storyline and season)

3. I feel it would also play well with Benedict not being able to recognise her even more due to her accent ( at the masquerade she pretend to be British when actually she is fully Irish)

4. People would even question her parentage even more due to her being Irish and highly educated (which was a rare sight in that period of history)

5. I feel like this aspect of Sophie could show how she has never felt like a person, never having something that was her and with this symbolism it shows how Irish people had everything taken from them as a nation and as people such as aspects of language, land and etc.

Irish!Sophie has never knew how beautiful Irish culture is with araminta excluding her from this side of her due to never considering her as a person.

Headcannon- she arrives to the Bridgerton household and a few of the staff are Irish and they start speaking to her in Irish and she’s like “what” like utterly confused and they start to question her and her upbringing

6. And I was watching titanic (I know) and I was thinking this would be iconic for irish!sophie (let me cook!!!)

I imagine a scene like the Irish dance scene in titanic

^^^^^

When Sophie starts to work for the Bridgerton household she meet the other house staff which could have a few Irish iconic characters and they invite her to a drink and a dance in like an underground basement type of thing where there is montage of Sophie dancing a ceile or drinking with her fellow Irish people (rambled there for a second)

This starts to happen a few other nights and Benedict gets suspicious of her always being tired and he follows her one night and finds her dancing, singing and looking happy. He decides to confront her but just to see she has had too much fun ( she’s drunk) and as he is about to scould her or something idk she grabs him to dance (this could be like a moment he fully falls for her)

Skip to them leaving and Sophie is drunk and they could have a moment where it parallels to Benedict’s high dinner scene on their walk home (we live among the stars type of moment)

NOW HEAR ME OUT!!!!!

They could somehow have a little drunk smooch and Sophie is at the state of drunk that she nearly reveals that she was the lady in silver at the masquerade ball and as she’s about it fully tell him she’s like “I was the La- lady-“ AND SHE JUST PUKES ON HIS FEET

(Y’all cancel me Idaf I needed this to be known)

And there’s a moment where they just look in shock and disbelief they start to laugh.

Skip to the next morning and she is hungover like crazy and she leaves her room and runs into Benedict and just tries to ignore what happened last night and bids him hello and hurriedly speeds off while he chuckles to himself

7. With Sophie being Irish it could also make Benophie stronger as Benedict is willing to accept her and understand her culture and involve it in their life e.g buying her a claddagh ring as an engagement ring (one of the stories about the creation of the claddagh ring are about a peasant and a prince fall in love and it is forbidden or something and the prince gives her a ring to symbolise their love(BENOPHIE CODED)), learning Irish with her, visiting ireland and giving their children irish middle names

8. I also think a brilliant song for the season would be linger by the cranberries because the lyrics and meaning of the song are perfect for Benophie while it also being an Irish band

9. I know that people are hoping for a POC Sophie or a Latina Sophie but I feel with Irish Sophie’s exclusion from society due to her being Irish shoes a whole other side of Bridgerton’s defiance against societal norms

10.i think I just want an Irish Sophie because I’m Irish but shhhhh

[satinspiderweb]

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[axelmedellin]

Daily drawing 3 sep 2024

Kalisa, for #kalisaflowers challenge

[kibutsulove]

What do you think about lesbian Illah, and who do you think would be a cannibal in atla🎤

lesbian ilah better mean girlzulon cuz if Azulon isn’t with her in every universe then I think the world wouldve been ashes by 45 AG and sort of unrelated but I have drawn fem azulon before

AAANDDD to the second part of the ask I think Hama would’ve been a cannibal at one point. Not out of choice but out of the need for survival . Girl was hungry :\

[lunedits]

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living dead girl [boy]

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"The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot, page 9

Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: Enter Madame Sosostris!

[marypickfords]

Girl with Hyacinths (Hasse Ekman, 1950)

[pinkrdragon7]

guys i just finished bridgerton s3 pt.2 and i am actually never getting over them omg.

its honest to god the best season yet, i loved everything about it. It honestly healed a part of myself that i knew needed healing but nothing actually seemed to do the trick.

I love them so much its actually not even funny 😭😭😭

AND OMG IM SO EXCITED FOR THE NEXT SEASON??? BENEDICT AND THE MASQUERADE BALL????? FRAN AND MICHAELA??? IM ECSTATIC!!!

(btw i have BEEN SAYING benedict is a bisexual king since SEASON 1 I FUCKING CALLED IT MAN)

But either way nothing will ever ever beat polin, no one understands this season like i do 🫶🫶🫶

[bridgertonbabe]

I want Benedict to discover his Baby sister playing in a High Stakes poker game.

He cannot tear her away.

She's winning

Realising she's besting some of the best poker players in the Ton, Benedict merely ups the stakes and sits back and watches his baby sister thrash all of her opponents and reaps the benefits of the slice of betting he backed her with.

[ride-thedragon]

In my anticipation, I've been spiralling about the future seasons of Bridgerton. If we get past Eloise and her season, we get Leg of Mutton sleeves on everyone. In the modern zeitgeist, it's the princess sleeve scene on Ariel and Giselle, but it's so pretty, and it's basically flared out regency silhouette.

And actual dress from the period first then some interpretations of what the show could give.