Drowning, Shipwreck, Sailing: T. S. Eliot’s Voyage of Transformation
Abstract: Drowning, shipwreck and sailing are recurrent images in Eliot’s poetry. Prufrock’s empty existence reaches a crisis imagined as drowning. “Death by Water” was originally the narrative of a doomed voyage, inspired by Dante’s and Tennyson’s portrayal of Ulysses. The Waste Land contains allus...
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Universidad de Almeria
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Odisea |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ODISEA/article/view/259 |