The Waste Land ‘The Waste Land’‚by T.S.Eliot‚ is widely regarded as ‘one of the most important poem of 20th century’ and a central text in modernist poetry.Published in 1922‚the 434 line poem was first appered in united Kingdom.Eliot’s poem loosely follows the legend of the holy Grail and Fisher Kin g combined with the Contemporary condition of British society.He employees many literary and cultural allusions from the western canon‚from Buddism and the Hindu Upanishad in the poem.Of course‚the
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T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland‚ whilst being laden with rich cultural references and allusions‚ is a confronting representation of re-establishment and rejuvenation across the entirety of a European post-war society. Eliot addresses the cyclical nature of life and death‚ encompassed by carefully crafted language and structure designed to disorientate the reader. The reader is offered an interpretation of human behaviour which is akin to all beings across the cohort of society‚ regardless of ethnicity
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MODERNISM (1901-1945) Modernism‚ in its broadest definition‚ is modern thought‚ character‚ or practice. More specifically‚ the term describes a set of cultural tendencies and movements‚ originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art‚ architecture‚ literature‚ religious faith‚ social organization and daily life
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The Waste Land‚ a 434-line modernist poem by T.S. Eliot revolves around a world of what seems to be chaotic and dead‚ and led by a single protagonist. Throughout The Waste Land‚ there are many uses of symbolism with tarot cards‚ astrology‚ and especially the game of chess: The game of chess is such a meaningful symbol throughout the story‚ that metaphors are used to describe the situation and emotions of the characters throughout the poem by describing them as chess pieces and in check-mate situations
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The Allusions in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land The Waste Land is an important poem. It has something important to say and it should have an important effect on the reader. But it is not easy. In Eliot’s own words: "We can say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization as it exists at present‚ must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity‚ and this variety and complexity‚ playing upon a refined sensibility‚ must produce various and complex results. The
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represented in T.S.Eliot ’s The Waste Land? Faith and belief‚ or the lack of it‚ has always played a major part in T.S. Eliot’s canon; perhaps more than any other Modernist writer‚ Eliot reflects the zeitgeist that was described by Spears Brooker (1994) as “characterized by a collapse of faith in human innate goodness and in the inevitability of progress.” (Brooker Spears‚ 1994‚ p.61) To this end‚ this paper looks at how such issues are represented in Eliot’s early work The Waste Land (1989) that‚ as we
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T.S. Eliot projects several levels of modern experience in ‘The Waste Land’. These are related to various symbolic Waste Lands in modern times such as ( a ) The Waste Land‚ religion where there are but no water ( b ) The Waste Land of spirit‚ where all moral springs are dried up and ( c ) The Waste Land of the reproductive instinct where sex has become a means of physical gratification rather than a source of regeneration. The Wasteland is mainly concerned with the theme of barrenness in the
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Towards the end of The Waste Land‚ the poetic voice says: ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’ (Eliot‚ The Waste Land‚ p. 140). Discuss this assertion in relation to the entire poem. In this part of the presentation I will be looking at Eliot’s fragmented form which produces a chaotic effect‚ and then discuss how the voice of the speaker who says ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’ might bring the poem together to form an order and a platform for the blend of images‚ languages
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People often struggle with making decisions. In the poem " The Love Song of J.Alfred"byT.S. Eliot‚ Prufrock" is a very indecisive man‚ which leads to depression and loneliness‚ showing that not making decisions leads to emptiness. Eliot shows this through tone and imagery. The use of tone express the indecisiveness of Prufrock. As the poem shows‚ Prufrock is often not sure if he should ask questions or not. One example of this is when Prufrock says‚ "Do a I dare?" (38). Prufrock is questioning
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In his 1923 essay “Ulysses‚ Order and Myth‚” T. S. Eliot predicated that rather than the narrative style of poetry popularized by poets of the Romantic era‚ poets of the twentieth-century would instead employ James Joyce’s “mythical method‚” a technique characteristic of heavy mythological‚ historical‚ and literary allusions used to create a “continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity” (177). Doing so allowed a poem to reach a new universal level of significance regardless of era‚
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