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Notes of the 14th of March
After the epigraph T. S. Eliot inserted a dedication in Italian to Ezra Pound. He was the father of imagist poetry, a kind of poetry which developed in the early years of the 20ieth century, which exploited the linguistic power as well as the emotional power of images. Mr Eliot addressed the dedication to him because Mr Eliot promoted innovative forms of poetry and also because E. Pound was one of the most significant people with whom Mr Eliot had come into contact. Moreover E. Pound had read The Waste Land in its manuscript form and had suggested Eliot to cut some of the poem parts. The parts that Ezra Pound cut were THE MOST NARRATIVE.
In the first line, April is the month witch marks the passage from the winter to the spring. The line doesn’t speak about April in the ordinary way because it is seen in a negative sense.
The Waste Land starts with a quotation in Greek language. The lines in Greek are taken from Petronius Satyricon and they say the following words:
"Del resto, la Sibilla, a Cuma l'ho vista anche io con i miei occhi penzolare dentro un'ampolla e quando i fanciulli: - Sibilla, che vuoi?- Lei rispondeva - Voglio morire-"
Western world culture was born from Greek language. The sibyl represents human being essence and her desire of death means a psychological and/or physical sufferance of humanity.
After the epigraph T. S. Eliot inserted a dedication in Italian to Ezra Pound. He was the father of imagist poetry, a kind of poetry which developed in the early years of the 20ieth century, which exploited the linguistic power as well as the emotional power of images. Mr Eliot addressed the dedication to him because Mr Eliot promoted innovative forms of poetry and also because E. Pound was one of the most significant people with whom Mr Eliot had come into contact. Moreover E. Pound had read The Waste Land in its manuscript form and had suggested Eliot to cut some of the poem parts. The parts that Ezra Pound cut were THE MOST NARRATIVE.