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A long poem by T. S. Eliot. Published in 1922, it loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.
 

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1. What The Thunder Said

2. What The Thunder Said: "If There Were Water And No Rock If There Were Rock And Also Water And Water A Spring A Pool Among The Rock ______________"

3. What The Thunder Said:"There Is The __________- Only The Wind's Home"

4. Fire Sermon: "The Time Is Now Propitious - As He Guesses - The Meal Is Ended - She Is Bored And Tired - Endeavors To ____________ Which Are Still Unreproved - If Undesired"

5. What The Thunder Said: "After The Agony In Stony Places The Shouting And The Crying Prison And Palace And Reverberation...___________ We Who Were Living Are Now Dying With A Little Patience"

6. What The Thunder Said: "These Fragments I Have Shored _______"

7. A Game Of Chess: "Poor Albert - He's Been _______Four Years - He Wants A Good Time - And If You Don't Give It Him - There's Others Will - I Said"

8. Death By Water: "Consider Phlebas - Who Was Once ____________"

9. The Burial Of The Dead: "You Cannot Say - Or Guess - For You Know________"

10. Fire Sermon:"At The Violet Hour - When The Eyes And Back Turn Upward From The Desk - When __________ Like A Taxi Throbbing Waiting"

11. A Game Of Chess:"_______ Please Its Time"

12. Lil And Ironic Generativity/Abortive Medicine - Dido/Cleopatra/Enthroned Female Figure - Philomela/Nightingale/"Jug Jug"

13. A Game Of Chess: "I Think We Are In ________ Where The Dead Men Lost Their Bones"

14. Madame Sosistre & Tarot Card Reading - "Unreal City"

15. Fire Sermon: " ___________Beating Oars The Stern Was Formed A Gilded Shell Red And Gold The Brisk Swell Rippled Both Shores"

16. The Burial Of The Dead: "Here - Said She - Is Your Card - The Drowned Phoenician Sailor____________

17. What The Thunder Said: "Jerusalem ______ Alexandria Vienna London Unreal"

18. What The Thunder Said: "Shantih _____ Shantih"

19. A Game Of Chess: "It's Them Pills I Took - To Bring It Off - She Said. (She's Had Five Already - And _____________)"

20. A Game Of Chess: "Above The Antique Mantel Was Displayed As Though A Window Gave Upon The Sylvan Scene The Change Of Philomel - By The Barbarous King So Rudely Forced; Yet There The Nightingale Filled All The Desert With Inviolable Voice.._________"

21. Fire Sermon:"Sweet Thames - Run Softly Till I End My Song....The Nymphs Are Departed. And Their Friends - ____________; Departed - Have Left No Addresses"

22. The Burial Of The Dead: "I Will Show You_____ In A Handful Of Dust"

23. What The Thunder Said: "Who Is The ______Who Walks Beside You?"

24. The Burial Of The Dead: Original Description Of

25. The Burial Of The Dead: "____ Is The Cruelest Month"

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