"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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This alludes to the beginnings of a national, and perhaps racial, identity for Europeans, which possibly also includes the loss of a greater, perhaps more valuable, cohesive European quality. | This alludes to the beginnings of a national, and perhaps racial, identity for Europeans, which possibly also includes the loss of a greater, perhaps more valuable, cohesive European quality. | ||
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And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, | And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, | ||
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This makes her cousin the Archduke Rudolf, whom she helped to conceal his affair. This draws in issues of fertility, legitimacy, betrayal, and deception. | This makes her cousin the Archduke Rudolf, whom she helped to conceal his affair. This draws in issues of fertility, legitimacy, betrayal, and deception. | ||
| − | Valerie Eliot maintained that this excerpt of Larisch's speech came not from her biography, ''My Past'', as many supposed, but actually came directly from a conversation that T.S. Eliot had with Larisch. | + | Valerie Eliot maintained that this excerpt of Larisch's speech came not from her biography, ''My Past'', as many supposed, but actually came directly from a conversation that T.S. Eliot had with Larisch. |
== Stanza 2 == | == Stanza 2 == | ||
