Eliot's Notes to "The Waste Land" // 1.20

Lines 20-24:

...Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.

Eliot's Note:

Line 20. Cf. Ezekiel II, i.

Citation:

Ezekiel 2:1, from the ESV translation of the Bible:

And he said unto me, “Son of Man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

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