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The Chair

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Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii, l.190. [Eliot's note] "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,/Burn'd on the water." In the opening lines of this passage Eliot makes a lot of references to Shakespeare's play, particularly the following famous scene in which Enobarbus describes with what kind of extravaganza Cleopatra first received Antony. Eliot has mixed imagery from Shakespeare's play with Dido's description in Virgil's Aeneid (see below).

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Antony and Cleopatra II.ii.187-255 →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
"Burbank with a Baedeker" →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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