Advait Praturi wrote: > > 1. To what extent does Eliot implement myth into the Wasteland? I've grabbed what I think are some of the significant myths from TWL and listed them below. I've left out scripture, Dante and, for the most part, the English playwrights although I can see a point for classifying them as myths too. 1) Sibyl 2) Tristan and Isolde 3) Hyacinth girl (Hyacinthus) 4) Aeneid (via Laquearia) 5) Philomel 6) Parsifal 7) Actaeon and Diana 8) Tiresias 9) Götterdämmerung 10) Voice of the Thunder 11) Philomel (Quando fiam uti chelidon) 12) Orpheus What I see as odd here is the level of indirection employed. Eliot seems to allude to a work that brings up a myth about as much as to a myth itself. That is the case with 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12. I bet something interesting could be made of that. Regards, Rick Parker