"The Waste Land" - The Fire Sermon (part 2 of 2)

[@helenhill8093]

this poem means so much to me, has always. Thank you for eloquently going to the depths of it.

[@MrHuffsLiteratureClass]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@Dyamonds]

you're a pro, please never stop with your videos

[@ArthurLWood]

The man who wept “after the event” could also be the earlier narrator in this part, “By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept…”

[@tizianagabassi5310]

Great and exhaustive analysis! Thank you so much!

[@thiagofranciscodasilvapaul5471]

Thanks for the video. I'm a Brazilian poet studying the language and searching for inspiration.

[@chiranjitmukherjee8338]

Pls creat a video on Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

[@nounounounou9365]

Thank you so much

[@ayushisharma5137]

Can you please explain triumph of life

[@kritika8891]

thankyou for this video....helped a lot..!!

[@MrHuffsLiteratureClass]

Thanks!

[@zombieteenager007]

Was that 'self-reflection' pun intentional or not? Either way, great stuff.

[@MrHuffsLiteratureClass]

Haha, unintentional. :) Thanks!

[@zombieteenager007]

Mr. Huff's Literature Class You are most welcome. Also, for the lines, "My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart Under my feet." Could it possibly be a reference to the crowd of the undead in _The Burial of the Dead_ where each person's eyes are fixated upon their feet? Eliot seems to utilise this cyclical referencing in _The Waste Land_ rather often.

[@MrHuffsLiteratureClass]

Absolutely. I love that thought.

[@zombieteenager007]

+Mr. Huff's Literature Class Oh, wow, I am glad that you do. It is also interesting to note that the finishing lines of _The Fire Sermon_ spoken by Augustine and Buddha could be another possible reference to the Punic Wars. After the Third Punic War Rome razed Carthage to the ground; further scenes of desolation perhaps? An allusion to another, ancient wasteland caused by war? Thank you very much for this series. It was a wonderful watch and it made me truly appreciate the artistry of _The Waste Land_.

[@MrHuffsLiteratureClass]

So awesome.

[@HNCS2006]

I think you need to read the "assualt" with a greater sense of irony. The housing agent clerk is mock-heroic, he is a hollow man, not a violent soul. She is incapable of feeling assaulted and he is incapable of assault. His assault is like Prufrocks "do i dare eat a peach, do i dare disturb the universe". The feeling of assault is merely an extension of the clerk's ego and masquerade of masculinity.

[@dante7888]

Makes welcomes of her indifference. "His vanity requires no response" it os assault. it is rape

[@HNCS2006]

@dante7888 potentially one could read it as a person in no need of sexual response or affection. He doesn't need to feel he's also desired. He wants it, she doesn't care about the sex, and he feels no need to get a response. She's indifferent not non-consensual. They're people that are avoiding any real personal intimacy. I just feel the category of rape goes against the very careful construction of all these characters that are not really capable of good and evil per se. They're 'robotic', 'automatic'. They are the people who were so non-existent, so 'hollow', they were rejected by hell (Dante).

[@harptreekour6281]

A lot of thnks