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I need help understanding a poem in here? Unreal City, under the brown fog of a winter dawn a crowd flowed over London bridge, so many, I had not that death had undone so many, -The Waste Land T.S.Elliot

Gionysius It's from Inferno 3:
"si lunga tratta di gente,
ch'io non avrei mai creduto che morte tanta n'avesse disfatta."…moreIt's from Inferno 3:
"si lunga tratta di gente,
ch'io non avrei mai creduto che morte tanta n'avesse disfatta."(less)

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shall i get complete review on this poem?what to prepare for exam..pls help

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Is Nabokov's Pale Fire inspired by this poem?

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The book is dedicated to Ezra Miller, a famous poet and contemporary of Eliot along with the line 'il miglior fabbro' which means 'The best blacksmith' does anyone know the context of this?

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When you read this think about when it was written - the aftermath of WW1 and the disruption that had caused. Link it to today, what we feel after war, atrocities, plagues and disruption across the world and perhaps the answers you couldn't find when forced to read it as an academic exercise will be found? Interested to read your responses?

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