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Flung their smoke

R Flung their smoke ...

Laquearia. V. Aeneid, I, 726:
dependent lychni laqueribus auries
incensi, et noctem flammis funalia vincunt T [Eliot's note]
Eliot refers to lines from a passage which describe how Dido entertains her royal guests (Aeneas and train). Eliot makes good use of the similarities between Shakespeare's play and Virgil's epic by mixing elements of descriptions from both in this opening paragraph of "A Game of Chess" (see detailed discussion below).

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A Game of Chess →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 →
Aeneid I, 7xx-7xx →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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