Song of the Thames-daughters

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"Song of the Thames-daughters" is a lyrical passage in T. S. Eliot’s poem *The Waste Land* that evokes the voices of river nymphs lamenting love and loss along the polluted Thames.

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Song of the Thames-daughters canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetic passage ⓘ
section of a poem ⓘ
addresses alienation in modern city life ⓘ
alludesTo Earl of Leicester ⓘ
Elizabeth I ⓘ
Philomela myth ⓘ
linked to: Philomela

Shakespeare ⓘ
linked to: William Shakespeare

Thames ⓘ
The Tempest ⓘ
author T. S. Eliot ⓘ
belongsToMovement High modernism ⓘ
linked to: Modernism
containsRefrain "Weialala leia / Wallala leialala" ⓘ
dateOfPublication 1922 ⓘ
featuresCharacterType river nymphs ⓘ
firstPublishedIn The Waste Land (1922) ⓘ
linked to: The Waste Land
genre modernist poetry ⓘ
imagery industrial pollution ⓘ
urban squalor ⓘ
water imagery ⓘ
influencedBy mythic method ⓘ
symbolism ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryForm lyric passage ⓘ
locatedInWorkSection Part III "The Fire Sermon" ⓘ
linked to: The Fire Sermon
meter irregular ⓘ
motif lament ⓘ
loss ⓘ
love ⓘ
narrativePerspective multiple voices ⓘ
partOf The Waste Land ⓘ
setting River Thames ⓘ
linked to: Thames
style allusive ⓘ
fragmentary ⓘ
polyphonic voices ⓘ
symbolizes corruption of nature by modern society ⓘ
eroded romantic ideals ⓘ
theme disillusionment ⓘ
fragmentation of modern life ⓘ
moral decay ⓘ
pollution ⓘ
tone elegiac ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ
usesDevice intertextuality ⓘ
juxtaposition ⓘ
repetition ⓘ

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The Fire Sermon → alludesTo → Song of the Thames-daughters ⓘ