Exploring The Waste Land
An allusion page linked from The Waste Land, Part I, line 31
Tristan und Isolde
Part I, lines 31-34
of
The Waste Land
is a direct borrowing from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, act I,
verses 5-8.
31) Frisch weht der Wind
32) Der Heimat zu.
33) Mein Irisch Kind,
34) Wo weilest du?
are from Richard Wagner's opera
Tristan und Isolde, I, verses 5-8.
The lines can be translated as:
Fresh blows the wind
To the homeland
My Irish darling
Where do you linger?
That portion of
the libretto for Tristan und Isolde
is available here.
External Links (shown in AUXILARY window):
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Topics:
- T 133 - Wagner, Richard
- T 127 - Tristan and Isolde
Links:
- L 133 - Wagnerian Links
- L 135 - Tristan und Isolde
- Libretto of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (in German but Act I also in English)
- L 136 - Tristan und Isolde synopsis
- New York's Metropolitan Opera presents a synopsis of Tristan und Isolde written by Opera News.
- L 137 - Tristan und Isolde
- Some Tristan und Isolde background information.
- L 138 - Visions of Tristan: a "drama of the soul"
- An article about the opera.
Exploring The Waste Land
File name: aq031.html
File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002
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