The Modern Language Review, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 1979), pp. 281-286. Birds in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Birds in Death of a Salesman. Birds in The Wasteland. The change of Philomel - The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Lines 97-103: Above the antique mantel was displayedAs though a window gave upon the sylvan sceneThe change of Philomel, by the barbarous kingSo rudely forced; yet there the nightingaleFilled all the desert with inviolable voiceAnd still she cried, and still the world pursues,“Jug Jug” to dirty ears.
Eliot's Note: 99. V. C J Ackerley - Eliot/Birds. Real and metaphorical mimicking birds in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. 'Bird-Modernism: Pound in the Aviary' ""Birds in modernist art and literature have multiple meanings and significations.
In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925), the traumatised soldier Septimus Smith hears the birds speaking in Greek. Similarly, in T.S.