Response Immediately, the epigraph emulates Eliot's view of the withering world through his referral to the Satyricon; the Sibyl of Cumae was once a beautiful woman, who was granted near immortality but had forgotten to ask to retain her youth, and in turn she grew old and decayed with the ability only to 'wish to die'. ...

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