ReferenceQuivi T Italian Here, so far as I could tell by listening, there was no lamentation except sighs, which caused the eternal air to tremble. reference topics back to "Sighs, short and ..." noteSighsSighs, short and ... Cf. Inferno IV, 25-27: Quivi, secondo che per ascolatre, non avea piante mai che di sospiri che l'aura eterna facevan tremare. [Eliot's note] In Limbo, the first circle of hell, Dante has found the virtuous heathens, who lived before Chris…Click for the full annotation → →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation → back to "The Waste Land" → Related pagesSighs