Phlebas the Phoenician, "once handsome and tall as you," is described in its short fourth section, "Death by Water.
The second section of this poem sees a speaker note, "I think we are in rats' alley/Where the dead men lost their bones." At the end of the first section the speaker quotes from "Au Lecteur" of Fleurs du Mal after calling London an "unreal city." Phlebas the Phoenician, "once handsome and tall as you," is described in its short fourth section, "Death by Water." Ending with a repetition of the Hindu word for peace, "shantih," is, FTP, what 1922 Modernist poem which begins, "April is the cruelest month," written by T.S. Eliot?
The second section of this poem sees a speaker note, "I think we are in rats' alley/
"The Waste Land"