Reference“Fourmillante cité” — English Translation T French 'Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the specter in broad daylight accosts the passerby.' (NA) reference topics back to Unreal City noteUnreal CityUnreal City Cf. Baudelaire: 'Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves,' 'Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant.' [Eliot's note]. The lines Eliot quotes are from "Les Sept Vieillards" ("The Seven Old Men") by Charles Baudelaire (1821-67); it is poem 9…Click for the full annotation → →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 pagesI hadUnreal City