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1. • • The main themes in The Waste Land are postwar social disintegration, modern disillusionment, and the potential for regeneration.
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   What is the theme of the Waste Land?

   • From the poem’s epigraph onwards, the idea of a living death is established as one of the key themes of The Waste Land. The epigraph is from Petronius’ scurrilous Roman novel, Satyricon. The speaker sees the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage or bottle, and when he asks her what she wants, the Sibyl replies, ‘I want to die.’

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   How does Eliot start the Waste Land?

   • T. S. Eliot opens The Waste Land with an epigraph taken from a Latin novel by Petronius. The epigraph describes a woman with prophetic powers who has been blessed with long life, but who doesn’t stay eternally young. Facing a future of irreversible decrepitude, she proclaims her longing for death.

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   Why is the Waste Land important to Eliot?

   • The Waste Land offers a profound reflection on the barrenness of modern life. In Eliot’s imagining, World War I had irreparably damaged Western civilization, reducing it to a smoking ruin. This damage shattered the cultural and aesthetic inheritances of the Western tradition and effectively halted social and economic development.

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   Who wrote Eliot's Waste Land?

   • From the Modernism Lab at Yale University: “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement,’ of our modern experiment, since 1900,” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922.

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   What is Eliot's vision in the Waste Land?

   • Eliot’s vision in The Waste Land reflects a world in irreversible decline. References to death and dying are frequent in the poem, starting with the title of the first section, “The Burial of the Dead,” which relates to the burial rites of the Anglican Church.

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   What does Eliot say about memory in the Waste Land?

   • The work of memory is central to The Waste Land, and it involves equal measures of torment and comfort. Eliot indicates as much in the poem’s opening lines, where April “mix [es] / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain” (lines 2–4).

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   From the poem’s epigraph onwards, the idea of a living death is established as one of the key themes of The Waste Land. The epigraph is from Petronius’ scurrilous Roman novel, Satyricon.

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   The Waste Land Themes. Previous Next. The Barrenness of Modern Life. The Waste Land offers a profound reflection on the barrenness of modern life. In Eliot’s imagining, World War I had irreparably damaged Western civilization, reducing it to a smoking ruin.

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   A dramatic monologue that changes speakers, locations, and times throughout, "The Waste Land" draws on a dizzying array of literary, musical, historical, and popular cultural allusions in order to present the terror, futility, and alienation of modern life in the wake of World War I.

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   The cultural degeneration from Shakespeare to popular music is emblematic of the decline and debasement seen throughout The Waste Land. Eliot has interestingly affixed an “O O O O” to the beginning of the song, which is reminiscent of the final lines of Hamlet: “The rest is silence. / O, o, o, o.”. It’s so elegant.

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   • I. The Burial of the Dead. April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain.
   • II. A GAME OF CHESS. The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass. (…) Spread out in fiery points.
   • III. THE FIRE SERMON. The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf. Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind. (…) But at my back in a cold blast I hear.
   • IV. DEATH BY WATER. Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell. And the profit and loss.

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   T. S. Eliot opens The Waste Land with an epigraph taken from a Latin novel by Petronius. The epigraph describes a woman with prophetic powers who has been blessed with long life, but who doesn’t stay eternally young. Facing a future of irreversible decrepitude, she proclaims her longing for death.