T.S Eliots The Waste Land :: T.S. Eliot Waste Land Essays

T.S Eliots The Waste Land           In T. S. Eliots The Waste Land you observe more mental images from the writing style he uses.  In personal line of credits 386 - 399 he writes           In this decayed mariner among the mountains         In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing         oer the tumbled graves, about the chapel service         There is the empty chapel, only the winds home.         It has no windows, and the verge swings,         Dry bones can harm no one.         Only a cock stood on the rooftree         Co co rico co co rico         In a flash of lightning.  Then a damp gust         Bringing rain       &nbs p Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves         Waited for rain, while the opprobrious clouds         Gathered far distant, over Himavant.         The jungle crouched, humped in silence.   In these lines he seems to tell of a graveyard near a chapel in an upcoming storm.  Different images can be seen from the decayed hole in the moonlight, the empty chapel without windows, and the roosters crows as the lightning and black clouds arrive.         In line 386, In this decayed hole among the mountains, probably refers to an empty grave that brings images of demise and the end of vitality, or possibly the beginning of a new life to mind.  The grave is lit by moonlight, possibly referring to the white light many people see when they have near-death experiences.  You get a creepy legal opinion when the wind blows and makes the grass sing in line 387.&nb sp In these initiatory three lines it talks of tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, which could tell of profuse lives, or a troubled second life.         The empty chapel without windows is nearby, as you perceive from lines 389 and 390           There is the empty chapel, only the winds home.         It has no windows, and the door swings   Its image makes you shiver.  It could possibly represent itself, in the sense that many people decease there, as in baptism, as well as dying, where this place whitethorn be the starting point for a second, never-ending life.  The chapel has no windows, maybe so that the people inside would not loose