Exploring The Waste Land
An allusion page linked from The Waste Land, Part I, line 42
Tristan und Isolde
Part I, line 42
of
The Waste Land
is a direct borrowing from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, act III,
verse 24.
42) Oed' und leer das Meer.
The line can be translated as:
Desolate and empty the sea
That portion of
the libretto for Tristan und Isolde
is available here (in German only);
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Topics:
- T 133 - Wagner, Richard
- T 127 - Tristan and Isolde
Links:
- L 133 - Wagnerian Links
- L 135 - Tristan und Isolde
- Libretto of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (in German but Act I also in English)
- L 136 - Tristan und Isolde synopsis
- New York's Metropolitan Opera presents a synopsis of Tristan und Isolde written by Opera News.
- L 137 - Tristan und Isolde
- Some Tristan und Isolde background information.
- L 138 - Visions of Tristan: a "drama of the soul"
- An article about the opera.
Exploring The Waste Land
File name: aq042.html
File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002
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