Part V
Lines 379-384

Lines 379-84 of The Waste Land are:

• 379)  And bats with baby faces in the violet light
  380)  Whistled, and beat their wings
  381)  And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
  382)  And upside down in air were towers
  383)  Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
  384)  And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
  

"According to Eliot some of the details here were inspired by a painting of the school of Hieronymus Bosch, the fifteenth-century Dutch artist."