NPPF: Canto Two -- Eliot

[Jasper Fidget]

ln 254: "In April's haze immediately behind"

Perhaps an allusion to Eliot's _The Waste Land_?

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html 

ln 376-379: "(some phony modern poem that was said" etc.

Definite allusion to Eliot's _Four Quartets_.  The words Hazel asks about:
"grimpen" (ln 368), "chtonic" (ln 370), and "sempiternal" (ln 372) are all
found in that poem.  From Boyd:

"Peter Lubin identified the sources in his 'Kickshaws and Motley' (1970),
205n.7, to which Nabokov responded: 'Very beautifully he tracks down to
their lairs in Eliot three terms queried by a poor little person in _Pale
Fire_' (_Strong Opinions_, 291).  (Nabokov's comment plays on the tracking
down of the hound of the Baskervilles -- Conan Doyle's novel is the source
for Eliot's word -- to its lair in Grimpen Mire.)  As Foster notes
(_Nabokov's Art of Memory, 223-24), the 'grimpen' (swamp) and 'sempiternal'
(in Eliot's poem: 'Midwinter spring is its own season / Sempiternal though
sodden towards sundown') anticipate Hazel's death in a swamp, as she steps
off the ice on a 'night of thaw' when 'Black spring / Stood just around the
corner" (P.494-96)." (Boyd, _The Magic of Artistic Discovery_, 273).

See also ln 369-370 for the rhyme "again" with "explain", making fun of
Eliot's adopted Britishness.

Question: is Shade (or VN) writing an answer to Eliot's *Christian* poem?

http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/

Jasper