Comprehension

-          1^st theme: line 39 “Who is the third who walks always beside you?”

-          2^nd theme: line 60 “There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home”

-          3^rd theme: line 94-95 “I sat upon the shore Fishing”

Interpretation

-          People try to leave something to the generations those have to come with the courage of a moment. But people loose the key to remember the predecessors. To sum up the only way to live everyone life is to lead our life knowing what comes.

-          They refer to the hope for renewal.

-          The concluding lines are written in Sanskrit because they remember the reader what people have to do to regenerate themselves.

-          There is the use of the objective correlative and of the use of intertextuality.

-          I’m interested in this experimental poetry because people usually don’t know anything about the other cultures. The use of intertextuality is very important because in order to understand the poem you learn other things you have never thought about.

-          The suppression of “links in the chain” of images causes obscurity in Eliot’s poetry.

-          Virginia Woolf says that the reader has to be like an acrobat because no image is linked to the next and the objective correlative becomes the principle of Eliot’s poetry.

-          They use the justapposition of scenes in their poems and they use a timeless intertextuality.