T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

possibly referring to the white light many people see when they
have near-death experiences. You get a creepy feeling when the wind blows
and makes the “grass sing” in line 387. In these first three lines it
talks of tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, which could tell of
troubled lives, or a troubled second life.
The empty chapel without windows is nearby, as you perceive from
lines 389 and 390:

There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings

It's image makes you shiver. It could possibly represent itself, in the
sense that many people die there, as in baptism, as well as dying, where
this place may be the starting point for a second, never-ending life. The
chapel has no windows, maybe so that the people inside would not loose
focus from the sermon. The chapel could represent death as well, since you
go in and cannot look back out.
The rooster in lines 392 and 393 may symbolize the beginning ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE: