Exploring The Waste Land
An allusion page linked from The Waste Land, Part I, line 1
April
Usually considered an allusion to Geoffrey Chaucer's
The Canterbury Tales where the Prologue starts
- When April with his showers sweet with fruit
- The drought of March has pierced unto the root
- And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
- To generate therein and sire the flower;
While
The Waste Land
does indeed start off, like The Canterbury Tales, with
an invocation of April and the allusion exists, please remember that
Eliot originally
started the poem differently.
Read
the Prologue
to The Canterbury Tales.
Exploring The Waste Land
File name: aq001.html
File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002
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