"The Waste Land" - A Game of Chess

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I'm Brazilian and I'm reading T. S. Eliot for the first time. I really enjoyed this video.

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[@MrsLucyDiamonds]

I believe that "rat's alley" might be a reference to the WW1 trenches as they were known to be filled by rats probably because of all the corpses stacked. Thank you very much for these videos! Truly helpful!!

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I have a modernism exam coming up and this has been insanely helpful. All the allusions and references you explained were fantastic! Thank you so much! Just wanted to add that rats alley is a name for the trenches in WW1, I think maybe the male is having a PTSD experience, hence the inability to communicate. Just wanted to add my 2 cents! But thank you again, most helpful!!

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[@povedon56]

"The hot water at ten" Nothing to do with tea but a hot water bottle that Eliot used to give Vivien(his wife) every night to relieve her migraines. Actually in the first draft Eliot wrote "a hot water bottle at ten" and was Vivien who suggested the change for the final version.

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And I think "the ivory men" rather simbolise a barren marriage, that is, the children that Vivien and Eliot will never bring to the world. Eliot really wanted to have kids but not with Vivien, mentally deranged by then.

[@K_F_fox]

I haven't heard anyone on KZbin say this, but "why do you never speak to me, speak" is *clearly* a Hamlet reference.

[@markhughes7927]

Which conversation? - please. Have a vague feeling that O O O O is also from one of his plays while mapping squarely upon many popular songs.

[@K_F_fox]

@@markhughes7927 O O O O is from a speech by Lady Macbeth.

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@@markhughes7927 Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!

[@K_F_fox]

@@markhughes7927 the play Hamlet opens with Horatio imploring the ghost of King Hamlet to speak, and the guards also imploring Prince Hamlet to speak to his father. In a very real way the play is about a lack of open and truthful communication and the consequences of toxic deception.

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@@K_F_fox Thank you - was thinking it might be there. ‘Toxic deception’ - you may enjoy Hank Whittemore’s last book on the subject publ.2022..

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The series of The Wasteland analysis is AMAZING and extremely helpful! Thank you for this! 😄

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[@ArthurLWood]

The game of chess is possibly also a reference to the chess game Ferdinand plays with Miranda at the end of The Tempest.

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Brilliant exploration of The Wasteland. Thank you ☀️🙂☀️

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Thank you Mr. Huff...I teach Waste Land and this video helped a lot..

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+Sabu Thomas Glad to help. Do you teach other Eliot works?

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[@markhughes7927]

37:18 ..have an unplaced memory that the number 31 has deep sexual significance in psychoanalysis of dreams and perhaps also an esoteric meaning in numerology…and ‘five already..young George’ appears to give zeitgeist for the epoque of George V the 12th year of which regnal period the poem is written in.. 40:51 There is a truly delightful obverse register of this predicament given in Charles Dicken’s short story ‘The Magic Fishbone’. 28:04 ‘..press lidless eyes waiting for the knock upon the door..’ suggests perhaps the marriage vow ‘until death do us part’ and a full stop to this love-lost marriage with a pressing down of the eyelids at the moment of death by one or other of the partners.

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36:42 also her husband’s been gone for 4 years, so if she’s pregnant, that means she had an affair while he was gone

[@proteusindomitus5015]

correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Tereus did cut off Philomela's hands..how then could she weave the tapestry depicting the crime which is quite central to the myth..perhaps I'm nitpicking..nonetheless I find the tremendously helpful great job

[@grainofsand4176]

I think you're right! There may be different versions of the myth as well. I think it's Lavinia ~from Shakespeare's play, Titus, who was raped and had both her tongue and hands cut off. Philomela had her tongue cut out and became a nightingale. Philomela sings and weaves a tapestry to tell Ovid. Thanks for adding to this amazingly informative video!

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Now i understand why this is associated with The Great Gatsby

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[@gimbutas1]

I have never heard the final "T" pronounced in tarot. It's "tarot" like "pharaoh". The "O" in "demobbed" is just like "mob" not "motivate".

[@K_F_fox]

The T is pronounced in *Demotic* French. And "Clairvoyant" rhymes with "croissant" in Demotic French, from what I've heard in dramatic readings including Eliot's.

[@christopherwallis9218]

although obviously the poem is talking about elliots view of marriage in general, is the first half largely based on his relationship with his own wife? i always find it hard to read these poems and not feel that they relate to elliots own personal life in some way

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Christopher Wallis I agree wholeheartedly.

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[@bilalelhammoumy452]

What exactly does the notion of fragmentation mean?

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