Cross reference topics for line 335

If there were water we should stop and drink

There are multiple cross reference topics for line 335. Choose from:

1. Use of alliteration
2. Descriptions of dry things
3. Eating, drinking and food
4. Water
5. The drawing of the reader into the poem
6. Repetition

Topic: Use of alliteration

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other"," or at short intervals; as in the following lines:

Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness.
     --Milton

Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.      -- Tennyson

The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it.

In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were.
     -- P. Plowman

Please excuse me. There are some things in here that are not alliteration. I need some time to clean up.

S sounds:

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  9)  With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
  
  
• 110)  Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
  
  

Atter & Ma:

• 262)  And a clatter and a chatter from within
  263)  Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
  264)  Of Magnus Martyr hold
  
  

F and Ph:

• 312)  Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
  
  

P:

• 326)  Prison and palace and reverberation
  
  

Ink:

• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
• 336)  Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
  

S sounds again:

• 344)  But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
  
  

Pretty obvious:

• 357)   Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
  
  

Ms and Hs:

• 367)  Murmur of maternal lamentation
  
• 368)  Who are those hooded hordes swarming
  

B sounds:

• 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
  

Topic: Descriptions of dry things

• 7)  A little life with dried tubers.
  
  
• 30)  I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
  
  
• 101)  Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
  
  
• 194)  And bones cast in a little low dry garret,
  
  
• 292)   'Trams and dusty trees
  
  
• 331)  Here is no water but only rock
  332)  Rock and no water and the sandy road
  
  
• 334)  Which are mountains of rock without water
  335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  336)  Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
  337)  Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
  338)  If there were only water amongst the rock
  339)  Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
  340)  Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
  341)  There is not even silence in the mountains
  342)  But dry sterile thunder without rain
  
  
• 354)   And dry grass singing
  
  
• 384)  And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
  
  
• 395)  Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
  
  
• 424)  Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
  
  

Topic: Eating, drinking and food

• 6)  Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
  7)  A little life with dried tubers.
  
  
• 11)  And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
  
  
• 166)  Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
  167)  And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
  
  
• 213)  To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
  
  
• 222)  The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
  223)  Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
  
  
• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
  

Topic: Water

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
  
• 24)  And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
  
  
• 38)  Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
  
  
• 55)  The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
  
  
• 89)  And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
  
  
• 94)  Huge sea-wood fed with copper
  
  
• 135)   The hot water at ten.
  
  
• 174)  Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
  
  
• 182)  By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept . . .
  188)  Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
  
  
• 189)  While I was fishing in the dull canal
  
  
• 193)  White bodies naked on the low damp ground
  
  
• 201)  They wash their feet in soda water
  
  
• 208)  Under the brown fog of a winter noon
  
  
• 257)  'This music crept by me upon the waters'
  
  
• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
  
• 337)  Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
  
  
• 338)  If there were only water amongst the rock
  
  
• 346)   And no rock
  
  
• 393)  In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
  
  

Topic: The drawing of the reader into the poem

• 17)  In the mountains, there you feel free.
  
  
• 21)  You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
  
  
• 27)  And I will show you something different from either
  28)  Your shadow at morning striding behind you
  29)  Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
  30)  I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
  
  
• 70)  'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
  
  
• 76)  'You! hypocrite lecteur!--mon semblable,--mon frère!'
  
  
• 115)  I think we are in rats' alley
  
  
• 319)   Gentile or Jew
  320)  O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
  321)  Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
  
  
• 329)  We who were living are now dying
  
  
• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
  
• 359)  Who is the third who walks always beside you?
  
  
• 401)  Datta: what have we given?
  
  

Topic: Repetition

Hyacinths

• 35)  'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
  36)  'They called me the hyacinth girl.'
  37)  --Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
  
  

Closing time at the public house:

• 141)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 152)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 165)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 168)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 169)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  

And again at the public house:

• 170)  Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
  171)  Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
  172)  Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
  

People

• 304)   My people humble people who expect
  
  

In this section notice the repetition of violet hour, throbbing, waiting, hour and home and how this repetition adds a throbbing effect:

• 215)  At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
  216)  Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
  217)  Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
  218)  I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
  219)  Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
  220)  At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
  221)  Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
  222)  The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
  
  

Stop and *ink

• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
  
• 336)  Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
  
  

In the section below notice the repetition of gaily and hand and hands in close proximity. Also note that heart is seen in both lines 402 and 420.

• 418)  Damyata: The boat responded
  419)  Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
  420)  The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
  421)  Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
  422)  To controlling hands
  
  
• 401)  Datta: what have we given?
  402)  My friend, blood shaking my heart
  403)  The awful daring of a moment's surrender
  

• 25)  There is shadow under this red rock,
  26)  (Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
  27)  And I will show you something different from either
  28)  Your shadow at morning striding behind you
  29)  Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;