The Fire Sermon
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The Fire Sermon is the third section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem "The Waste Land," depicting spiritual desolation and moral decay in a fragmented urban landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fire Sermon canonical | 3 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
poem section ⓘ |
| alludesTo |
Shakyamuni Buddha
ⓘ
surface form:
Gautama Buddha
Mr. Eugenides (Smyrna merchant) ⓘ Augustine of Hippo ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Song of the Thames-daughters ⓘ Thames ⓘ
surface form:
Thames River
The Tempest ⓘ
surface form:
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
|
| author | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
loss of transcendence
ⓘ
moral decay ⓘ sexual emptiness ⓘ spiritual desolation ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1922 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Death by Water ⓘ |
| follows | A Game of Chess ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Eugenios
ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Eugenides
Thames-daughters ⓘ Tiresias ⓘ clerk lover ⓘ typist ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhist teachings on desire
ⓘ
Christian confessional tradition ⓘ classical mythology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
fragmentation
ⓘ
multiple voices ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | Tiresias ⓘ |
| partOf | The Waste Land ⓘ |
| partOfCollection | The Criterion (October 1922 issue, as part of The Waste Land) ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition |
Boni & Liveright
ⓘ
Faber & Gwyer ⓘ |
| references | Buddhist Fire Sermon (Ādittapariyāya Sutta) ⓘ |
| sectionNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| setting |
modern London
ⓘ
urban river landscape ⓘ |
| symbolism |
fire as lust and spiritual torment
ⓘ
river as time and decay ⓘ urban waste as spiritual barrenness ⓘ |
| themeContrast | physical desire versus spiritual emptiness ⓘ |
| tone |
despairing
ⓘ
ironic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.