The Burial of the Dead: 00:00 <br />A Game of Chess: 04:58 <br />The Fire Sermon: 10:21 <br />Death By Water: 18:19 <br />What The Thunder Said: 19:00 <br /> <br />Written in 1921-1922. <br /> <br />01:30 : "And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief" cf Ecclesiastes <br />01:40 "Only / There is shadow Under this red rock" may refer to Parzival: " And this stone all men call the Graal [...] / As children the Graal doth call them, / Neath its shadow they wax and grow". <br />02:00 Tristan und Isolde, I, 5-8 <br />02:40 Words that announce to Tristan that Isolde's boat is nowhere to be seen. <br />03:00 "These are pearls that were his eyes" quotation from The Tempest. <br />03:48 In the following passage, references to Baudelaire ("Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves / Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant") and to Dante's Inferno ("si lunga tratta / di gente, ch'io non avrei mai creduto / che morte tanta n'avesne disfatta") <br />04:29 Mylae, 260 B.C : Naval victory of the Romans over the Carthaginians, during the first Punic War, which largely resulted from their commercial rivalry; cf. 1914-1918. <br />04:54 Baudelaire, Préface aux Fleurs du Mal. <br /> <br />05:05 Quotation from Anthony and Cleopatra. <br />06:28 Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI, Philomel. The whole passage recalls Milton's Paradise Lost, IV, 140 <br />08:00 Rag = ragtime. <br />10:12 Ophelia's last words to the dames of the Court, after Hamlet has accused her of being a prostitute. <br /> <br />10:42 Quotation from Spencer's Prothalamion <br />11:45 Cf. The Fisher King, or Wounded King, in the Arthurian Legends. His imaginary castle is always near a river or the sea. <br />12:21 "they wash their feet" like the Fisher King before his restauration <br />12:25 "O ces voix d'enfants chantant dans la coupole" Verlaine, Parsifal. <br />13:00 Cannon Street Hotel: where businessmen met. <br />13:20 In Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes. He was transformed into a woman for 7 years. Cf. Ovid: "At pater omnipotens [...] pro lumine adempto / Scire futura dedit poenamque levavit honore" <br />14:33 Bradford prospered thanks to the war. <br />15:58 "This music crept by me upon the water" quotation from The Tempest. <br /> <br />18:26 In fertility rites, Phlebas was drowned. <br /> <br />21:52 "A woman drew her long black hair out tight" Cf. Ecclesiastes: one of the daughters of music. The following lines also recall Ecclesiastes (cf. "the wheel be broken at the cistern") <br />22:47 The cock dispels the malevolent spirits (see The Tempest or Hamlet) <br />23:17 "Datta, dayadhvam, damyata" ("Give, commiserate, govern") from a fable about the meaning of thunder. <br />24:46 Chorus of a traditional nursery rhyme "London Bridge is broken down / Dance over my lady lee" <br />25:15 "Hieronymo's mad againe" quotation from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy
