Fertility Rite - Literature: T. S. Eliot

Literature: T. S. Eliot

In The Waste Land, 'Eliot waxes nostalgically for a classical society founded upon ritual praxis...fertility rites in which the participants mime the fall and return of natural cycles' - 'Keeping time, Keeping their rhythm in their dancing As in their living in the living seasons', as he would subsequently put it.

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