Cross reference topics for line 1

April is the cruellest month, breeding

There are multiple cross reference topics for line 1. Choose from:

1. Allusions to other work
2. The seasons
3. Time

Topic: Allusions to other work

• I)  The Burial of the Dead
  
• 1)  April is the cruellest month, breeding
  
• 2)  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  
• 20)  Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
  
• 23)  And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
  
• 74)  'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
  
• 76)  'You! hypocrite lecteur!--mon semblable,--mon frère!'
  
• 77)  The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
  
  
• 116)  Where the dead men lost their bones.
  
  
• 125)  Those are pearls that were his eyes.
  
  
• 137)  And we shall play a game of chess,
  
  
• 172)  Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
  
  
• 176)  Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
  
  
• 182)  By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept . . .
  
  
• 185)  But at my back in a cold blast I hear
  
  
• 191)  Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
  
  
• 192)  And on the king my father's death before him.
  
  
• 196)  But at my back from time to time I hear
  
  
• 197)  The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring
  
  
• 198)  Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
  
  
• 202)  Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
  
  
• 203)  Twit twit twit
  
  
• 221)  Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
  
  
• 253)  When lovely woman stoops to folly and
  
  
• 277)   Weialala leia
  
  
• 290)   Weialala leia
  
  
• 307)   To Carthage then I came
  
  
• 308)   Burning burning burning burning
  
  
• 309)   O Lord Thou pluckest me out
  
  
• 310)   O Lord Thou pluckest
  
  
• 311)   burning
  
  
• 377)  A woman drew her long black hair out tight
  
  
• 400)  DA
  
  
• 401)  Datta: what have we given?
  
  
• 410)  DA
  
  
• 411)  Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
  
  
• 417)  DA
  
  
• 418)  Damyata: The boat responded
  
  
• 427)  Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
  
  
• 428)  Quando fiam uti chelidon--O swallow swallow
  
  
• 429)  Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie
  
  
• 431)  Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.
  
  
• 432)  Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
  
  
• 433)   Shantih shantih shantih
  
  

Topic: The seasons

• 1)  April is the cruellest month, breeding
  2)  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  3)  Memory and desire, stirring
  4)  Dull roots with spring rain.
  5)  Winter kept us warm, covering
  6)  Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
  7)  A little life with dried tubers.
  8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
  
• 18)  I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
  
  
• 61)  Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
  
  
• 173)  The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
  
  
• 179)  Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.
  
  
• 190)  On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
  
  
• 198)  Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
  
  
• 208)  Under the brown fog of a winter noon
  
  
• 327)  Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
  
  

Topic: Time

• 1)  April is the cruellest month, breeding
  
• 11)  And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
  
• 18)  I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
  
• 28)  Your shadow at morning striding behind you
  
• 29)  Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
  
• 61)  Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
  
• 67)  To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
  
• 68)  With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
  
• 104)  And other withered stumps of time
  
• 133)  'With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?
  
• 135)   The hot water at ten.
  
• 136)  And if it rains, a closed car at four.
  
• 141)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 148)  He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,
  
• 152)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 157)  (And her only thirty-one.)
  
• 165)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 168)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 169)  HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
  
• 170)  Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
  
• 171)  Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
  
• 172)  Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
  
• 173)  The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
  
• 179)  Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.
  
• 185)  But at my back in a cold blast I hear
  
• 190)  On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
  
• 195)  Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.
  
• 196)  But at my back from time to time I hear
  
• 208)  Under the brown fog of a winter noon
  
• 214)  Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
  
• 215)  At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
  
• 220)  At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
  
• 225)  Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
  
• 226)  On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
  
• 243)  (And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
  
• 253)  When lovely woman stoops to folly and
  
• 263)  Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
  
• 312)  Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
  
• 316)  Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
  
• 317)  He passed the stages of his age and youth
  
• 322)  After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
  
• 323)  After the frosty silence in the gardens
  
• 324)  After the agony in stony places
  
• 328)  He who was living is now dead
  
• 329)  We who were living are now dying
  
• 330)  With a little patience
  
• 379)  And bats with baby faces in the violet light
  
• 383)  Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
  
• 386)  In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
  
• 404)  Which an age of prudence can never retract
  
• 415)  Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
  
• 416)  Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus