This poem describes how "a woman drew her long black hair out tight and fiddled whisper music on those strings."
This poem describes how "a woman drew her long black hair out tight and fiddled whisper music on those strings." The title of Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing comes from an image in this poem. A character in this poem complains "My nerves are bad to-night." Three lines of this poem consist only of the syllable "da," which is then expanded into the words datta, dayadhvam, and damyata. This poem's shortest section asks the reader to "consider Phlebas," and is called "Death by Water." Characters in this poem include Tiresias and a "famous clairvoyante" named Madame Sosostris. This poem, which ends with the words shantih shantih shantih, begins "April is the cruellest month." For 10 points, name this poem by T. S. Eliot.
This poem describes how "a woman drew her long black hair out tight and fiddled whisper music on those strings."
"The Waste Land"