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In a message dated 05/28/2001 10:02:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,=20
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> The last two paragraphs were the quote from Campbell. Besides, I don't
> care much if the term that is used is Waste Land or wasteland as long as
> the poem's title is gotten correctly. An exception is made for Kate
> because she knows what the title really is ;-)
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7413 140 20_Re: myth and reality14_Richard [log in to unmask], 29 May 2001 10:27:02 -0600559_- This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Kate:
What action or quality of the "third" makes the "third" (line 360) a =
questor? The questor of myth is not unknown or mysterious. The questor =
is usually the central action charactor. The King and the Country =
(waste land) are usually just background staging within which the =
questor acts. [...]36_29May200110:27:[log in to unmask]
7554 28 18_Reality and poetry11_Marcia [log in to unmask], 29 May 2001 13:30:22 -0400543_- Rickard Parker wrote:
> I see the Fisher King and the questor both as the poem's poetic self.
> Since I see TWL as a personal poem that means Eliot. But I don't see
> much of the questor actually in the poem. He faced some personal
> problems that could be considered a wounding and he had to cope with
> them. The writing of TWL itself was one way of doing that. It
> certainly was a deluge of writing after what he must have considered a
>
> drought. And in the writing he had to face [...]35_29May200113:30:[log in to unmask]
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In a message dated 05/29/2001 12:27:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> . The King and the Country (waste land) are usually just background staging
> within which the questor acts.
>
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Exactly, but here, the Waste Land is the main point and the questor lurks in
the background.
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7623 41 22_Re: Reality and poetry16_Rickard A [log in to unmask], 29 May 2001 15:20:17 -0400 (EDT)372_- Marcia Karp wrote:
> If what you say is true -- that the writing of the poem was a coping
> strategy for the wounded poet -- in what ways does your insight matter
> to the reading of the poem? I don't mean in what ways was Eliot
> affected by his own life, but in what ways do readers benefit from
> knowing the facts of his life? [...]49_29May200115:20:17-0400(EDT)[log in to unmask]
7665 58 22_Re: Reality and poetry11_Marcia [log in to unmask], 29 May 2001 16:38:56 -0400543_- Rickard A Parker wrote:
> Marcia Karp wrote:
>
> > If what you say is true -- that the writing of the poem was a coping
> > strategy for the wounded poet -- in what ways does your insight matter
> > to the reading of the poem? I don't mean in what ways was Eliot
> > affected by his own life, but in what ways do readers benefit from
> > knowing the facts of his life?
>
> This might not be a word I would thought of using before quoting
> Joseph Campbell but [...]35_29May200116:38:56-040¦ž2 a |
