Who wrote these lines? 'Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves / Waited for rain, while the black clouds / Gathered far distant, over Himavant. / The jungle crouched, humped in silence.'

1. ARalph Waldo Emerson
2. BT. S. Eliot
3. CEmily Dickinson
4. DSri Aurobindo

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Correct answer: B. T. S. Eliot

Explanation

From 'What the Thunder Said', Part V of The Waste Land (1922). Eliot then retells the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad's 'Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata'.