This poem describes a "golden Cupidon" who peeped out from a glass and "doubled the flamesof sevenbranched candelabra" and contains a request "in demotic French / to luncheon" byEugenides of Smyrna.
This poem describes a "golden Cupidon" who peeped out from a glass and "doubled the flamesof sevenbranched candelabra" and contains a request "in demotic French / to luncheon" byEugenides of Smyrna. Its first section asks "What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / outof this stony rubbish?" This poem features the corpse of Stetson and a pearl-eyed figure who isspotted in a "wicked (*) pack of cards" by Madame Sosostris. It includes the drowned Phoenician sailorPhlebas and a section that repeats the line "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME". Narrated by Tiresias, itopens with an epigraph about the Cumaean Sibyl and ends with the line "Shantih shantih shantih". For 10points, name this poem beginning "April is the cruelest month", a work of T.S. Eliot.
This poem describes a "golden Cupidon" who peeped out from a glass and "doubled the flamesof sevenbranched candelabra" and contains a request "in demotic French / to luncheon" byEugenides of Smyrna.
"The Waste Land"