The Waste Land

Her vow kept and her duty done, Phedre married Claudas becoming Queen of what was known as Terre Deserte since the days of Uther. The Land Laid Waste. It was a desolate but fertile land with the common people falling to the cross as they forgot the Old Ways. Even without the title of priestess, Phedre would never have been an idle woman with the seemly virtues of a housewife. Opinionated, logical and well educated, she was quick to learn how to manage her new home as well as her new husband. Claudas

The beginning of “The Waste Land” is a prophetic Sibyl of Greek mythology that is granted immortality, but does not ask for perpetual youth and becomes old, which diminishes her authority. This reflects the mindset of the piece in a sense, people are not thinking about the past or the future in how events such as WWI will affect them or society. Right off the bat, the poem begins with a rich diversity of cultures from different time periods encapsulating this notion of the presentness of the past

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot In the poem, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot gives a primarily positive connotation by using the theme of speech, language, and failure of speech. In each of the sections, Eliot shows how speech and communication are important in life. He also shows that speech cannot always accomplish what actions can. The way the characters in the poem use speech show that speech and communication are important. A Game of Chess This section may be the best example of communication

Eliot had many starting places because World War I had recently ended. The first reference is in Section I to a German lake, the Starnbergersee. The Germans fought against the Allied forces, two of which were the countries that Eliot called home (“The Waste,” Poetry). Eliot lost a close friend in the war by drowning, and is possibly represented by the drowned Phoenician sailor (Templeton). The man who drowned is mentioned in Section I with Madame Sosostris with the tarot cards, as well as Section IV

The second section is titled, “A Game of Chess” in which Eliot explores the social world of the Wasteland. The wasteland is a place where its boring with empty barren land and Eliot plans on regenerating the land. This section begins with a scene from Thomas Middleton’s Elizabethan play, Women Beware Women. This scene transitions the poem from death to sex and represents the most modernism throughout the poem. This section also emphasizes

rhythmical grumbling" (T.S. Eliot on "The Waste Land") Table of contents page 1. Introduction 4 2. T.S. Eliot- a brief biography 4 3. The fire sermon 5 3.1 Structure 6 3.2 Intertextuality 6 3.3 Interpretation 8 3.3.1 Water 8 3.3.2 City 11 3.3.3 Fusion 13 4. Conclusion 14 Bibliography 1. Introduction There are not many poems which offer such a wide range of possible perspectives for an interpretation as T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", a cycle consisting of five parts. A deep

beliefs (or the absence of), sexuality, emotional impoverishment, boredom and spiritual emptiness.      The Waste Land “is a poem about spiritual dryness, about the kind of existence in which no regenerating belief gives significance and value to people’s daily activities, sex brings no fruitfulness, and death heralds no resurrection,” (Abrams 2368). “It annoyed Eliot that The Waste Land was interpreted as a prophetic statement: he referred to it (somewhat disingenuously) as ‘just a piece of rhythmical

In The Waste Land, the speaker tells of the “flash of lightning” and “damp gust” that promises rain, but first, to earn the rain, humanity must listen to the advice of the thunder. In the Hindu faith, the thunder’s roar of “DA” tells all of humanity, the gods, men

another person. In the play No Exit by Sartre and the poems The Waste Land by Eliot, there are similar unpleasant interactions depicted. No Exit is a play consisting of three characters Inez, Garcin, and Estelle who are in hell damned in one room. The characters had thought hell was a place for punishment but rather found themselves in a room well furnished. However, all the characters refuse to admit to their damnation reasons. The Waste Land on the other hand is a collection of poems that delve in war

reading of T. S. Eliot’s, ‘The Waste Land’? In this discussion of Eliot’s poem I will examine the content through the optic of eco-poetics. Eco- poetics is a literary theory which favours the rhizomatic over the arborescent approach to critical analysis. The characteristics of the rhizome will provide the overarching structure for this essay. Firstly rhizomes can map in any direction from any starting point. This will guide the study of significant motifs in ‘The Waste Land.’ Secondly they grow and spread