AnnotationRudely R So rudely forced Cf. Part III, l. 195. [Eliot's note] The reference in this note and the previous also recall the following lines from The Hollow Men: "As wind in dry grass/ Or rats' feet over broken glass/ In our dry cellar" reference topics Ovid's Metamorphoses, book IV, Philomela →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 → Philomela and the Nightingale →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 → The Hollow Men →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 → back to "The Waste Land" → Related pagesThe Waste Land - T.S. Eliot