Question

Which sentence in”The waste Land by t.s. Eliot” best explains how an allusion in the passage affects its meaning?

Answer 1

in The Waste Land from T.S. Elliot there are a lot of allusions, which are references to persons things or places that the writer uses to say a whole lot with less words. In the sentence : "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante.......", the author makes the allusion to the cunning tarot card reader and with the use of the various tarot card he furthermore gives allusions to happenings further in the poem. Some of the cards are : the Drowned Phoenician Sailor, The blank card, the hanged man , all with a meaning that the writer does not explicitly tells you but you must know from knowledge of the tarot cards. This you get from research and readings into the backgrounds of all these allusions