"Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand..."
This line read originally:
"The sweat is dry and the feet cannot stop..."(V. Eliot 71).
To eliminate wordiness, Pound crossed out the "the's" occurring here. He also eliminated "cannot stop,"(V. Eliot 71) replacing it with "are in the sand," and Eliot retained this change, to emphasise the gritty dryness of the waste land.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting
"The sweat is dry and the feet cannot stop..."(V. Eliot 71).
To eliminate wordiness, Pound crossed out the "the's" occurring here. He also eliminated "cannot stop,"(V. Eliot 71) replacing it with "are in the sand," and Eliot retained this change, to emphasise the gritty dryness of the waste land.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting