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- Seeking refuge in the ancient Indian wisdom, alluding to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Eliot concludes with a message of hope with “Datta” (give); “Dyadhvam” (sympathise) and ‘Damyata” (be. controlled). This resorting to oriental philosophy, he believes, will help in the regeneration of present disintegrated and pessimistic society.
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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.
The Waste Land Summary & Analysis. T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, as well as a modernist masterpiece. 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 ...
Jul 4, 2020 · Eliot’s allusion to this poignant episode from the Inferno itself has a place of honor in The Waste Land. Eliot uses it to define by analogy the second of the third injunctions from the Upanishads that form the core of the fifth and last section of The Waste Land, “What the Thunder Said.”
Eliot's Notes on The Waste Land. The Waste Land. Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Cambridge).
The popular nursery rhyme mentioned at the end of The Waste Land is "London Bridge Is Falling Down." At the end of the poem, Eliot calls back to the crowd mentioned in the first section,...
Much of this final section of the poem is about a desire for water: the waste land is a land of drought where little will grow. Water is needed to restore life to the earth, to return a sterile land to fertility.
Oct 24, 2022 · In a brilliant unpublished poem, “The West Land,” Scottish poet and Eliot biographer Robert Crawford resituates The Waste Land in the scorched and burning landscape of a dystopian Australia.
