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Still Falls (changes)

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Content

• Set during German air raids of London 1940
• As hopeless and grim as Country Dance was light
• Christian imagery (Lazarus, Potter’s Field, the Cross) for disappointingly simple comparison of the sacrifices of London to those of Christ

Form

• Repeating first line of each first: Still falls the Rain
  • Quite powerful rhetorically, but the meaning of the poem doesn’t develop but merely repeat.
• Horrifically literal appropriation of the use of Restoration drama in the last moments of The Waste Land (her, Marlowe’s Faustus)