FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Virgil
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Fetronius
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Seneca
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Homer
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Detailed explanation-1: -The epigraph to The Waste Land comes from the Satyricon of Petronius and translates: “For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said to her ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’ she replied, ‘I want to die.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem is preceded by a Latin and Ancient Greek epigraph from chapter 48 of The Satyricon of Petronius: Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: “ "; respondebat illa: “ ."
Detailed explanation-3: -Just as the Sibyl of mythology predicted the future, the Sibyl of Eliot’s epigraph foreshadows what is to come in the rest of the poem. The epigraph perfectly shows Eliot’s adroitness for connectivity as he chooses a figure that can trickle through the text and latch herself to the rest of the poem.
Detailed explanation-4: -Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from? The first epigraph Eliot designated to the poem came from Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness".
Detailed explanation-5: -Manuscript of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land, with Ezra Pound’s annotations. The manuscript draft of The Waste Land features the poem’s original title, ‘He Do the Police in Different Voices’.