Your mission for Tuesday is to read the rest of Eliot’s “Waste Land.”
Before you start reading, think about our discussion of the poem’s first section “Burial of the Dead.” I tried to point to a network of motifs that seems to sustain Eliot’s poem: wet/dry, “unreal cities,” voices, exile, nature/un-nature, fragments/ruins, and zombies. As you work through the rest of the poem, track one of these motifs by annotating as many instances of the motif as you can. Use the “tag” function of hypothes.is to label these instances with the motif you’re tracking. (See my example for the dedication to Ezra Pound.) (The “tag” box appears at the bottom of the text box where you typically enter your annotation.)
Questions? Let me know.