Heartland

The violet hour is in itself Eliot no? Also the razor cuts and the shriek subsides. Right, "the violet hour" is from the Waste Land, I must have missed it. I think it just means twilight for both Eldritch and Elliot, though. Elliot commented that the passage marks the return of a fisherma...

In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. I will try to come back to this, but for the moment I do not understand the meaning of this allusion. Oh, I guess that makes Eldritch Michelangelo, doesn't it? Women (Women, women, women) And the women come and go Talk (Talk, talk, talk) Ta...

I think that most of the typical Goth bands have a certain cold pragmatism about them, including The Sisters - I mean the likes of Joy Division, Bauhaus, Nephilim, Siouxie etc. The outsiders view is that all goth lyrics are emotionally charged and filled with sadness, when that is not the case. But...

The Waste Land The (impossible to recap) Waste Land makes numerous allusions to the legend of the Fisher King. The central image of the poem, the titular wasteland, is created by the fisher king, who is the occasional narrator, as in a part of section III, "The Fire Sermon", that should b...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock One of the only well-known Elliot poems that to me does not scan to me as being about the first world war, and far more conventional in its use of language than what most people think of Elliot (guess that would make it Vision Thing?). Nevertheless it is remarkab...

Gerontion The opening and closing lines of Gerontion are echoed by the opening lines of Mother Russia: Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. ... Tenants of the house, Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Compare to: We serve an old man in a dry season A...

I got really into Elliot recently and I found myself very liberated to write my own verse as a consequence — seeing how much :von: was inspired by (or lifted from) him made me feel much better about how much TSOM inspires me :D I wanted to collect a few references I've found here and provide some th...

I've always had a soft spot for Black Sabbath's Dio years, sort of a reverse TSOTM situation — the band without the essential vocalist.