Down with more prolegomena! Give me a V. .....

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Thu Jun 10 20:13:09 CDT 2010


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> Second, when I reread" The Waste Land" recently, Eliot a deep influence on TRP, I noticed that the last section, section the fifth was "V."..titled 'What the Thunder Said".   Coincidence or another hidden resonance?
> V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
> In the first part of Part V three themes are employed: the journey to Emmaus, the approach to the Chapel Perilous (see Miss Weston's book), and the present decay of eastern Europe.


WHy not Ash Wednesday Part V. or another poem?



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