ENGL 2655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypoesthesia, Upanishads, Fisher King
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English: modern literature, poetry of first world war. The great poem of cultural confusion + disorder, + attempt to rebuild something from pieces leftover - world that has lost all meaning and succumb to anarchy. Line 139 : takes place in pub, lower class o. Hurry up please it"s time what they said when closing pub, sign to people to get one more drink in before you must leave (-illusion to war, as if they"re talking about the war) 31 year old lil looks older than she should look - strain, has had 5 kids - has too many children and can"t afford another one: sexuality and fertility. Eliot sees sex among working class as a need for more workers and them multiplying in slums of london. Part 3: tiresias - is a frame, tries to answer riddle of thebes, swapped sex for 7 years so he is in an interesting position to understand relationship between sexes,
