Wasteland V:
"What the Thunder Said"
Refers to a Hindu text: The Upanishad.
Other allusions in this section: Bible - New Testament (Matthew, Mark, John). Holy Grail Legend, Shakespeare and the Roman General Coriolanus.
Return to the Desert. The Falling of Cities. The Drying up of Rivers. The lack of rebirth?
This is a HARD Section and yet it ends the poem. What is going on here. What are the connections to the other sections?
Here are some sites that might help: Modernism and The Waste Land and some general notes on the entire poem
"The Waste Lands" - go here:
Elements: Know both definitions and examples
Imagery, denotation, connotation, irony – verbal, situational, dramatic, sarcasm, metaphor, personification, metonymy, apostrophe, symbol, allegory, paradox, overstatement, understatement, allusion, tone, alliteration, assonance, consonance, internal rime, slant rime, end rime, approximate rime, refrain, meter, iamb, monosyllabic foot, line, stanza, cacophony, enjambment, onomatopoeia
Forms:
Structure, line breaks, how the poem looks, rhyme and rhythm and how it is created
Sestina, Villanelle, Pantoum, Sonnet (English, Italian, Spenserian, and hybrid), quatrain, tercets, couplets, litany.
Poems:
Various sonnets, various sestinas and villanelles, “The Flea” “My Last Duchess” “The Waste Land” “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Waste Lands” “Nani” “The Colonel” “One Art” “Fern Hill” “The Waking” “My Mistress’ Eyes” “The Second Coming”
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