In Memoriam’s Imagery and Motifs: The Wasteland

Jon Lanestedt, University of Oslo, and George P. Landow, Brown University

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Desert

• Section 8: “In those deserted walks”
• Section 56: “Be blown about the desert dust”
• Section 66: “a desert in the mind”

Wasteland

• Section 3: “From out the waste places comes a cry”
• Section 7: “ghastly thro' the drizzling rain /On the bald street”
• Section 22: “somewhere in the waste/The Shadow sits”

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