Thames-daughters
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Thames-daughters are mythic, river-spirit figures in T. S. Eliot’s poem "The Fire Sermon" from *The Waste Land*, echoing the lamenting Rhine maidens of Wagner while embodying the polluted, desolate state of modern London.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary characters
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mythic figures in poetry ⓘ mythical beings ⓘ river spirits ⓘ |
| alludesTo |
Richard Wagner
NERFINISHED
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Wagner’s Ring cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSection | The Fire Sermon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Waste Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRiver | River Thames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
disillusionment
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environmental degradation ⓘ fragmentation ⓘ spiritual barrenness ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
classical river nymphs
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idealized nature spirits ⓘ |
| createdBy | T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts | sexual exploitation in modern London ⓘ |
| echoes | lament of the Rhine maidens ⓘ |
| embeddedIn | polyphonic voices of The Waste Land ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1922 ⓘ |
| genreContext | modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | early 20th-century Britain ⓘ |
| hasIntertextualRelation |
Norse and Germanic river-spirit traditions
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Wagner’s Das Rheingold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Rhine maidens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| linkedToCharacter | Tiresias (through shared section The Fire Sermon) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
choric lament
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voice of complaint ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | High modernism ⓘ |
| medium | poetry ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
commentators on the state of the river
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witnesses of urban corruption ⓘ |
| partOf | mythic allusion network in The Waste Land ⓘ |
| relatedMotif |
corrupted nature
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lamenting maidens ⓘ river imagery in The Waste Land ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| settingDetail | banks of the River Thames ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
desolation of modern urban life
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loss of mythic purity ⓘ moral decay in modern London ⓘ pollution of the River Thames ⓘ |
| tone |
lamenting
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melancholic ⓘ |
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