Blake Fletcher
AP English
The Waste Land Section 4
The fourth section of “The Waste Land Death By Water” is exactly what it sounds like. The speaker died I assume by drowning. He is becoming more and more distant from what his life was as he is devoured by the sea? Or the creatures within it. The thing I found interesting about this section is that it is made up of four rhyming couplets. This seems to be not only the shortest section but also the strictest formed section of “The Waste Land”. Also, I think that the speaker is trying to urge to everyone to know their limits maybe. Or in other words that everyone can die. No one is immortal.
Blake - this section is written in the 3rd person. The speaker isn't dead. You need to connect this section with the tarot card reading in section 1.
ReplyDeleteAlso note the stanza breaks.