Wasteland.
I've had a better understanding of the poem through the lectures and the.
ideas behind the writing. It is intriguing about all the little.
connections that the poem makes. The poem, to me, seems to try to.
reproduce a feeling as it reproduces so many images within it. The.
feeling is one of despair and coldness. The section containing Tireseas.
and the typist is almost like a fore-warning. Tireseas himself is of.
much interest. He has been of both sexes and in the myth, he claims to.
Herea that females enjoy sex more than males. However, it is the.
typist's pursuer thatlusts more for sex, while she sits back. The.
images of throbbing engines are compared with continuous grammaphone.
The engines set up a scene of excitement, but ends in the most.
mechanical movements ever.
The boy, seen as "carbuncular" is really a disgusting sight and the fact.
that the girl doesnot refuse his advances is repelling:.
Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;.
Exploring hands encounter no defence;.
His vanity requres no response,.
And makes a welcome of indifference.
Of the two, the boy wants it more, while she could care less either way.
However, the sightof the boy is disgusting as he paws her. It is almost.
as ugly as rape, but there is no force or even throbbing feelings. For.
the most private, sexual act ever, it is very desexualized and.
mechanical in form. The fact that there are no feelings makes.
everything that seems morally wrong not so bad.
Tireseas is still present at the end of the paragraph and expounds on.
his experiences.
and how he still has to witness such a scene. He has seen all and does.
not show any real interest in this part. He bestows "one final.
patronising kiss" and also leaves. Tireseas, who cannot see, but can.
forsee perhaps warns against it. He had said women prefer sex more,but.
not in this scene. .
