T.S.+Eliot

**The Wasteland**
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“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. “Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak. “What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? “I never know what you are thinking. Think.” I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones. “What is that noise? ”The wind under the door. “What is that noise now? What is the wind doing? Nothing again nothing. “Do “You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember “Nothing?” I remember Those are pearls that were his eyes. “Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
 * II. A Game of Chess** (lines 111 – 126)


 * All of the following questions are to be answered in relation to the novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald.**
 * (1)** If ‘a game of chess’ is a metaphor for a particular part of the novel, what could it possibly represent?
 * (2)** The voice within this poem is quite frantic and erratic. Which character’s voice do you think it most closely represents? Explain.

She turns and looks a moment in the glass, Hardly aware of her departed lover; Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: “Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.” When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.
 * III. The Fire Sermon** (lines 249 – 256)


 * (1)** How is the ‘lovely woman’ in this section of the poem similar to Daisy?
 * (2)** Do you think Daisy is shallow and foolish, or is it all an act? Explain.

Dayadhvam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
 * V. What the Thunder Said** (lines 412 – 415)


 * (1)** What is the ‘prison’ that each individual character has created for themselves?
 * (2)** In your opinion, do any of the characters possess the key to freedom, or are they relying on other people to set them free?

**__i carry your heart__****by e. e cummings**

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere  i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done  by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows  higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

The idea of love is often present in the writing of e.e. cummings as an omnipotent power that has almost an unimaginable force behind it. The common theme of love is expressed though the incomprehensibility that is present in cummings poems. In what ways can links between the themes of The Great Gatsby and i carry your heart be made?