Exploring The Waste Land
A note page linked from The Waste Land, Part II, line 126

Eliot's note for line 126

Cf. Part I, l. 37, 48.

Commentator's note

Eliot means compare Part II, line 126 :

126)  'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'

to Part I, line 37 :

37)  --Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,

and to Part I, line 48 :

48)  (Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)

Exploring The Waste Land
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