Detail from The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel (the Elder)
Some
remarks on lexical fragments and Romanian echoes
in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Timisoara, May 2004; Joint presentation by Camelia Elias & Bent Sørensen
Detail from The Triumph of Death by Pieter
Bruegel (the Elder)
If Eliot’s The Waste Land
exemplifies all forms of fragmentation – Eliot seems to suggest so:
“These
fragments I have shored against my ruins” (l. 430) – one might also
expect
cases of lexical fragments, i.e. incomplete words. The words “Tereu”
and “DA”
are examined, simultaneously suggesting a hitherto unexplored line of
research
into possible Romanian echoes and influences in Eliot’s poem.