Let’s finish talking about the first section, “Burial of the Dead,” of Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”
Recall that in our discussion last Monday, one thing we focused on in the first few lines was the poem’s fascination with mixing – – death and life, memory and desire, winter and spring, etc. I called this a “zombie” motif, i.e. the poem is full of things, people, voices that transgress borders and distinctions, that seem to confuse what properly belongs where. Your task for this Monday is to re-read “The Burial of the Dead” to find as many of these “zombie” moments as you can. Highlight or underline them and bring your annotated text (and/or list) to class.