The Waste Land- Burial of the Dead: first speaker
This section starts out speaking of spring being cruel, when usually it is a happy month. Everything is given life in the spring, but in this poem, winter is considered less harsh because it is a time when you can hide from things that have happened. The speaker talks about the lilacs mixing memory with desire (lines 2&3). This could be suggesting that the speaker at one time was growing and flourishing at one time, but now isn't anymore. The speaker wants to be like that flower and have something to live for. This section gives us a memory of when the speaker was happy, and something as little as holding on tight could give her a sense of comfort and freedom (lines 16&17). Now the speaker has grown old and doesn't have the same sense of fun and freedom in her life. She feels that there is no hope and she has nothing left to live for (line 18). She has no friends and no hope- no reason left to live.
Romantic
15 years ago
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Okay so happy moments are in the past in this poem. Think about lines like "I read much of the night" and the contrast between going south in the winter and once playing and living in the snow. You could argue that she has become a ghost.
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