Themes, Images etc. Connecting The Waves to T.S. Eliot


 



 
 
  The Waves
  • Does the Waves dramatize Eliot's "objective correlative"
  • Jinny in some ways seems like the women in The Waste Land: a compilation and correction, an answer that show that sexually active women can be positive.  Jinny's gilt chair ("The chair she sat on,..) is not the guilt chair.
  • p. 177 -- Jug Jug:  I sing like the nightengale Jinny
  • p. 170 -- Louis wishes "a little typist would cuddle on my knees"
  • All the root imagery surrounding Louis -- 
  • p. 168 -- "I have read my poet in an eating house..." a little Prufrock parody
  • pp. 200-1-- mistress is a vulgar little actress, can't speak English correctly, dirty underwear (sounds like Viv)
  • lilacs-- violets
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