The Lightning - a review from T.S. Eliot's book

        In T. S. Eliots The Waste Land you perceive more images from the

writing vogue he uses. In lines 386 - 399 he writes:

In this icky hole among the mountains

In the languid moonlight, the grass is singing

Over the tumbled expectants, about the chapel

There is the exonerate chapel, only the winds home.

It has no windows, and the ingress swings,

Dry bones can harm no one.

Only a neb stood on the rooftree

Co co rico co co rico

In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust

Bringing rain

Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves

Waited for rain, mend the black clouds

Gathered far distant, over Himavant.

The jungle crouched, humped in silence.

In these lines he seems to tell of a graveyard near a chapel in an upcoming

storm. Different images can be seen from the decayed hole in the

moonlight, the empty chapel without windows, and the roosters crows as

the lightning and black clouds arrive.         

        In line 386, In this decayed hole among the mountains, probably

refers to an empty grave that brings images of death and the end of spirit, or

possibly the beginning of a new life to mind. The grave is lit by moonlight,

possibly referring to the white light many people see when they have

near-death experiences.



You get a creepy musical note when the wind blows

and makes the grass sing in line 387. In these first three lines it talks of

tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, which could tell of troubled

lives, or a troubled second life.

        The empty chapel without windows is nearby, as you perceive from

lines 389 and 390:

There is the empty chapel, only the winds home.

It has no windows, and the door swings

Its image makes you shiver. It...

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