THE WASTE LAND- THE FIRE SERMON - SUMMARY IN TAMIL தமிழில்

THE WASTE LAND- THE FIRE SERMON - SUMMARY IN TAMIL தமிழில்
The title The Fire Sermon, (the longest section of The Waste Land), is taken from a sermon given by Buddha. Eliot opens this section on the banks of the Thames, ,” which is filled with images of lifelessness and decay. and cites Spenser’s “Prothalamion” with the line: “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.” The river is empty; “the nymphs" and their friends of Spenser’s poem have departed. Thames is, devoid of life. The narrator remembers sitting by “the waters of Leman” – French for Lake Geneva, and weeping. His tears are a reference to the people of Israel, exiled to Babylon, cry by the river as they remember Jerusalem.

There are allusions to the litter of modern life and a rat drags itself along the riverbank. The narrator fishes in the river while thinking of “the king my brother” and “the king my father,” alluding to the Holy Grail myth of the Fisher King,. The waste land, is filled with naked dead bodies and scattered bones disturbed by rats.
Eliot proceeds to allude to John Day’s The Parliament of Bees, a seventeenth-century work that describes the tale of Actaeon and Diana: Actaeon approaches Diana while she is bathing, and, surprising her, is transformed into a stag and killed by his own dogs. Here Actaeon is “Sweeney” and Diana is Mrs. Porter.

The myth of Philomela is alluded to again and the “unreal city” of London returns as a place where the narrator is propositioned, sexually, by a merchant named Mr. Eugenides ., the one-eyed merchant of Madame Sosostris’s tarot pack. Eugenides invites Eliot to go with him to a hotel known as a meeting place for homosexual trysts.
The narrator now takes on the role of a figure from Greek mythology: Tiresias, who has both male and female features (“Old man with wrinkled female breasts”) and is blind but can “see” into the future. In this role, the narrator watches a young typist visited by her lover, an arrogant and unpleasant clerk, who has sex with her and leaves, while she remains thinking only that she is glad that it is over and plays music on the gramophone.The music seems to transport the narrator back to the city below.. First, a fisherman’s bar is described, then a beautiful church interior, then the Thames itself.. The Thames-daughters having lost their gold, sing a song of lament (“Weialala leia / Wallala leialala”). The scene shifts again, to Queen Elizabeth I in an encounter with the Earl of Leicester. The queen seems unmoved by her lover’s declarations, and she thinks only of her “people humble people who expect / Nothing.”