Concepts of womenhood and purity run rampant through litterature. Across TWL there are prevalent themes of what easily seems to be Anti Womanhood. The Vigil of Venushowever completely redifines womenhood in teh context of Eliot. The peice comes with a certain sypathy for women and love that I don't think we ever really see elsewhere. I think this short line, in many ways redifines what Eliot has meant entirely in his depiction of women in society. Perhaps it is his way of showing that it all really comes from a place of sensetivity. It seems often that he berades women, but perhaps he is callig to light the unjust treatment of women. This theme fits exceptionaly in the context of TWL being a planet (which is usually characterize as female) that has been disrespected and abuses and belittled and has essentially gone to waste. Still none the less has the hope of someday being free like a "swallow".

Aknowledging the inherrently flawed aspects of man, as mentioned in "...the Inferno of humankind's capacity for evil and cruelty..." there is a certain commentary on human nature. Perhaps it be that, human nature only really can exist ithrough that which is bad or erroneous. But in death, that which is bad is not what is remebered by others despite that it is essentially most important when facing religous judgement.

The poem speaks to the existence of a being which according to CHAPTER XIII: The Perilous Chapel, is a sort of omnipresent devil that it is difficult tp sight. This is interesting in the context of What the Thunder Said because while the most of the poem so far does also have religious undertones, they are starkly contrasting. The beginning of this section of the poem speaks as a plea for religious salvation; a realization that the world has come to major faults and perhaps it is only religion that can fix it. While this stanza of the poem contrastingly speaks to the devil walking hidden amongst men. "The Hand appears, Perceval fights against and wounds it; then appears a Head; finally the Devil in full form who seizes Perceval as he is about to seek the veil of which he has been told."

Thinking of no water in the concept of a “wasteland” it is very fitting. A land that lacks water, cannot harbor life. It lacks substantial vegetation, it lacks animals, it lacks purpose. This is by definition a “wasteland”. Elliots mention of “He who was living is now dead,” relates directly to the story of Lazarus; a man who was living and in need of religious intervention who was forsaken but later saved. Perhaps Elliot speaks to the world in this way; a world he has come to define as a wasteland; nearing death by the day begging for the mercy of christ but seemingly forsaken. It could be that Elliot is speaking about a message of hope that one day the world will again be saved.

Elliot creates the idea of a dead body drowned in water. This speaks directly to Dantes Inferno. In Purgatorio we read of Buonconte da Montefeltro’s narrative. Buonconte injuries himself trying to escape the marsh and upon doing so the marsh is flooded with rain. “…my frozen corpse and swept it down the Arno, undoing at my chest the cross..” This is very literally a “death by water” and perfectly fits the picture that Elliot paints. Furthermore, during these circumstances there’s a major religious presence, as a voice (perhaps god, or an angel) oaks to him and even encourages him to pray. This is very interesting because it further develops the antithetical nature of both Purgarorio and TWL. In this passage and TWL there as a prevalent antithesis of water and fire; death by water in hell and major reference to fire in the stanzas just before this new part of Elliots poem.

In The Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Pali, "Fire Sermon Discourse”), the idea that things are tainted for everybody by their own perception; A dilemma in which ones understanding of a certain thing is innately distorted by how they perceive it. The discourse speaks specifically to the idea of a “eye” on “fire” and how thus all ‘forms on fire; eye-consciesness is o fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by the eye, that is also on fire”. Though the concept of fire repeats itself in TWL I think this mention brings an entirely knew objective to the poets work. While the repetition of fire thus and must refer to the other works mentioned it also holds a duality in its intention; now not only moving away from christianity as the cornerstone for fire but adding a concept that is completely different to the conceptualization of fire as hell or sin.

In this stanza Elliot speaks to the famous church of Magnus Martyr, a small but beautiful church rebuilt on the sight of a church burnt down by a fire. The church was later preseved from demolition. The creation of this church is representative of the rebuilding of life on what can be described as a religeous "waste land" of sorts. The protection of the church is representative of religous preservation. The church also managed to survue a fire that destroyed tens of houses. Thinking to Elliots Religeous belief of anglo-catholicism, it makes sense that holds a sort of commection to the church.

Antitheically the church is positoned directly next to a public bar to which local fisherment go to get drunk. This ironically is also another "wasteland' of sorts relugeously and literally speaking.

Eliots working title of "He do the police in different voices" is a curious effort. The title is quoted direcly from Charles Dickens character Betty Hidgen in Our Mutual Friend. I found that the quote in many ways creates a unique moment in the story. Immediately following this comment the "visitors and the orphans laughed and the visitors laughed." After this moment there is a clear change in the atmosphere. there is a certain connectuion betwee n the groups of pteople that seemingly could not differ more.

In Malory's Le Marte D'Arthur, the legend of King Arthurs Court, tours the relationship between war, health, and the manifestation of a wasteland. Elliot writes the wasteland in connection to the ruins in which parts of eaurope wer eleft after war.In Le Morte D'Arthur, we are set in a timeperiod similarly of wr and destruction as we are set in the war between king Labor and King Hurame. Furthermore in Le Morte the war ultimately leads to what the legend reffers to as a "Waistland" in which there were "neither corn,nor grass, nor well-nigh no fruit, nor in water was bo fish;wherefore men call it the lands of the two marches". This Wasitland simiary to that with which Elliot speaks is a land from which man has robbed of its potental for life.