Ts Eliot the Waste Land

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” T.S. Eliot

The poet that I am doing my poetry project on is Thomas Stearns Eliot. He is also known as T.S Eliot for short.T.S Eliot was born on September 28, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri and he passed away on January 4, 1965 in London, England. He was able to live until he was 76 years old and then unfortunately died from emphysema. Emphysema is a chronic lung disease that is caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long term exposure to tobacco smoke. Eliot was a chronic smoker and had health problems.

T.S. Eliot was know for many different types of poetry, he also wrote many different critic essays, plays, and drawing-room plays. Eliot judged and wrote on many plays and poems including his own, for instance, he noticed and said this about his play “The Family Reunion”, “...that its hero was a prig but its poetry the best in any of his plays”(Cuddy).

I decided to look at the main features of the difficult poem one more time and find any

This book is something special and should absolutely be a book you check out, and take the time out to read.

T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ tells us about ‘modern spaces’ in various aspects. The ‘modern space’ is presented as a dark, unrelenting place that is fragmented through time and space .The structure of the poem is not created in any logical sense because of the abstract elements that help make up the overall style of the structure. Intertextuality is evident in the poem because it references other poets, although there is a sense of critique in some of these indications. Spirituality is evident in the poem too because of the aftermath of the World War, which is the main reason for ‘the wasted land’. Industrialism brought out critique from Elliot because it involved

In the first two lines of "The Waste Land," Eliot says, "April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land" (l. 1-2). Eliot shows the connection between

T.S. Eliot was one of many award winning book writers. T.S. Eliot was known as a ‘’hard working writer.’’ He published his first book in 1915, starting off his career as a writer/poet.

Eliot calls to our attention the degradation of society using the theme of lust throughout The Waste Land. In “A Game of Chess” and again in “The Fire Sermon,” he describes how sex has become an act devoid of meaning and emotion. The speakers in these sections show how society has separated sex and love, stripping it of its significance. However, in “What the Thunder Said”, Eliot points the way to redemption. He quotes Dante stating, “Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina” (line 427) which translates to, “Then he hid himself in the fire that refines them.” The purifying fire he speaks of comes from Canto 26 of Dante’s “Purgatorio”. In this passage, Dante is traveling through terrace seven

It is perhaps part of the unique genius of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” that both critics and lay readers have repeatedly felt forced to look outside the published text of the poem for clues as to its meaning. The text’s fragmented, seemingly violated body seems to exhibit wounds through which its significance has slipped, creating a “difficulty caused by the author’s having left out something which the reader is used to finding; so that the reader, bewildered, gropes about for what is absent…a kind of ‘meaning’ which is not there, and is not meant to be there”

In modern literature, Thomas Stearns Eliot is one of the most recognized poets as he had a large part mending the modern literature era during the time between the world wars. In this essay, I will analyze T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland and the various ways Eliot used sound to create something special for the audience to experience. Along with identifying T.S Eliot’s influences, from his experiences. The Wasteland is an exemplar modern poem that doesn’t compare to any other pieces of work from the same period. The Wasteland has a way of puzzling its readers, no matter the readers status of intellect.

I opted for this book in particular because after having read the introduction, I was fascinated by the concept.

Everything that happens in the world is not of reality because it holds no value. The cause of this is Adam's burden that was placed upon man. Eliot has been quoted as saying, "I do not mean that our times are particulary corrupt: all times are corrupt" ("The Social Function of Poetry", 453). Eliot "ignores the positive human aspects of Christianity" (Robbins, 24) and rigidly rejoices death. It seems that Eliot escapes from reality seen in "The Wasteland" and into a

Traditionally, authors begin their compositions at the beginning and then proceed to an end, creating a logical flow of information towards a conclusion. T.S. Eliot threw most traditional form out the window as he composed The Waste Land. The voice changes, the structure varies, his allusions are elusive, and the first section of the poem is entitled “The Burial of The Dead.” This of course does not speak to a beginning, but to the conclusion of what could be one or many lives. Even before this heading, the epigraph evokes the feeling of something, (a something that the reader must work to comprehend) almost eternal, reflecting on a lifetime (an ‘almost eternal’ lifetime) with a melancholic eye. The

The first section of the poem, “The Burial of the Dead,” repeats the image of Spring. Spring normally equates to life, rebirth, and renewal but T.S. Eliot gives the image a bad connotation. This pessimistic view on Spring is similar to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay who wrote, “To what purpose, April, do you return again?” (“Spring” Millay 1). Eliot opens the poem proclaiming, “April is the cruellest month” (Eliot 1). With this line, he turns to pessimism, like many modernist poets, and argues that the expectations of joy from Spring are mixing memory and desire. Eliot argues that Spring gives hope in rebirth and regeneration which deeply hurts those who have to deal with death. “The Waste Land” suggests that Spring can no longer occur due to the total destruction of World War I. All land, infrastructure, and morality was decimated from the bombs and the fighting that took place during the war. The ability to escape the newly created wasteland is impossible and not even Spring can bring back the good in the world.