In T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land you perceive many images from the
writing style he uses. In lines 386 - 399 he writes:
In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings,
Dry bones can harm no one.
Only a cock stood on the rooftree
Co co rico co co rico
In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
Bringing rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.
In these lines he seems to tell of a graveyard near a chapel in an upcoming
storm. Different images can be seen from the decayed hole in the
moonlight, the empty chapel without windows, and the rooster's crows as
the lightning and black clouds arrive.
Drawing of T. S. Eliot by Simon Fieldhouse. Deutsc...
A scan of the text of the epigraph and dedication ...
English: T. S. Eliot, photographed one Sunday afte...In line 386, "In this decayed hole among the mountains," probably
refers to an empty grave that brings images of death and the end of life, or
possibly the beginning of a new life to mind. The grave is lit by moonlight,
possibly referring to the white light many people see when they have
near-death experiences. You get a creepy feeling when the wind blows
and makes the "grass sing" in line 387. In these first three lines it talks of
tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, which could tell of troubled
lives, or a troubled second life.
The empty chapel without windows is nearby, as you perceive from
lines 389 and 390:
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings
It's image makes you shiver.