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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.
Oct 24, 2022 · If we take seriously Eliot’s theory of literary change—that today’s literature is “altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past”—The Waste Land is effectively becoming a different poem in the time of the Great Acceleration.
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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.
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. (Shades of the Fisher King myth here again.)
Jul 4, 2020 · Unlike Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” where the speaker is easily identified as Prufrock, or, for the sake of contrast, “Whispers of Immortality,” where the speaker is clearly the poet, The Waste Land is a poetry more in keeping with “Portrait of a Lady” or “La Figlia che Piange,” in which it is difficult to ...
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.
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Mar 29, 2016 · TS Eliot‘s The Waste Land, which has come to be identified as the representative poem of the Modernist canon, indicates the pervasive sense of disillusionment about the current state of affairs in the modern society, especially post World War Europe, manifesting itself symbolically through the Holy.
