Death by Water

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"Death by Water" is a brief, elegiac section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem *The Waste Land* that reflects on mortality and the destructive, purifying power of the sea.

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Death by Water canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
poem section
addresses the reader directly in its closing lines
author T. S. Eliot
belongsToCycle five-part structure of The Waste Land
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
describes the death of Phlebas the Phoenician
featuresCharacter Phlebas the Phoenician
firstPublishedIn The Waste Land
surface form: The Waste Land (1922 book edition)
genre modernist poetry
hasCriticalReception widely studied in modernist literary criticism
hasMotif forgetfulness
shipwreck
the turning of the tide
imagery decay and dissolution
drowning imagery
sea imagery
influencedBy classical elegy tradition
mythic sea narratives
language English
literaryForm lyric
literaryMovement Modernism
meter free verse
narrativePerspective third person
partOf The Waste Land
The Waste Land
surface form: The Waste Land (poem)
positionInWork fourth section of The Waste Land
publicationYear 1922
relatedWork A Game of Chess
The Waste Land
surface form: The Burial of the Dead

The Fire Sermon
What the Thunder Said
structure short lyric passage
studiedFor its compressed, allusive style
its treatment of death and renewal
symbolism the sea as oblivion
the sea as transformation
water as destruction
water as purification
theme death
destruction
drowning
mortality
purification
the fragility of human life
the sea
the transience of worldly achievements
tone elegiac

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The Waste Land section Death by Water
The Fire Sermon followedBy Death by Water