The Waste Land

According to Ricoeur ‘Mourning is a reconciliation. With what? With the loss of some objects of love; objects of love may be persons of course, but also, as Freud says, abstractions like fatherland, freedom—ideals of all kinds’ (7). Through reconciliation mourning is helpful, and allows one to move forward by letting go of the ‘object’ (Ricoeur 7). Melancholia on the other hand is harmful because there is no reconciliation with the loss of the ‘object’ and a continued yearning for it (Ricoeur 7)

T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland Cooperation is the key to human survival, and over time humans have been known to group together to survive. This strategy has allowed humans to develop massive cities and countries of immense power. Without the natural instinct to cling to one another, humans would not be as advanced as they are today, and may not have even made it out of the caves. Many authors display our natural instinct to cooperate in their works, allowing the characters to become more real to

repetition. However, we have become adjusted to it so almost none of us complain. T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri and eventually moved to London, England. Extremely well educated, Eliot wrote many highly praised poems. For example, The Waste Land was assembled out of dramatic vignettes based on Eliot’s London life. Another poem, Preludes, talks about the daily lives of people where it starts off simple, but leads into something deeper than everyday life. Three reasons why I relate to Preludes

Trash by Andy Mulligan “Trash” is an amazing book written by author Andy Mulligan. Throughout this Novel it implies some powerful messages for the reader. Most people believe child labor was abolished years ago but the novel implies that children as young as three years old have to work in these poverty stricken places. One of the strongest points he implies is written on the front of the book “you never know what you might find”. The last but not least idea that this novel implies is that poor

"It was a wasteland. In front of him, a flat pan of dry and lifeless earth stretched as far as he could see. Not a single tree. Not a bush. No hills or valleys. Just an orange-yellow seat of dust and rocks; wavering currents of heated air boiled on the horizon like steam, floating upward, as if any life out there were melting toward the cloudless and pale blue sky" (Page 95 The Scorch Trials By James Dashner’s Quote.)- Thomas thinks to himself. If I were stuck in this wasteland with nothing inside

starts out with a little background about the specific time period starting with founding of Britain by Brodus. After a while the author goes deeper into the meaning of life and what the future will hold for the land. Also that doomsday is upon the people due to how people are treating the land. Basically ends up with an argument between Winner and Waster, which could end up very bad. The argument about one another that Winner and Waster have for each other comes down to how they live their own lives

are reminded of the ladies in Prufrock who 'come and go talking of Michael Angelo'. There talking leads nowhere and so by implication their lives are meaningless and dead, as dead as the wasteland. The next stanza shifts to images of the dead land with clutching branches and roots. We can see from this

The First World War was an immense catastrophe caused by increasing militarism, imperialism, and alliances and lasted from 1914 to 1918. The poem, the Wasteland, a classic of Modernist literature published in 1922 by T.S Eliot, wholly captures the turmoil, barrenness and despair felt by the masses during WWI, also commonly known as the war to end all wars. This is done through the fragmented and melancholic depiction of a barren, physical and emotional “wasteland” devoid of any life, joy or human

Search for Innocence in American Modernism      American Literature from its very beginning has been centered around a theme of innocence. The Puritans wrote about abandoning the corruption of Europe to find innocence in a new world. The Romantics saw innocence and power in nature and often wrote of escaping from civilization to return to nature. After the Civil War, however, the innocence of the nation is challenged. The Realists focused on the loss of innocence and in Naturalist works innocence

A resolution to this problem, and a further refinement of Burtynsky’s relation to the sublime, appears in Timothy Morton’s discussion of irony. Morton writes that, “Irony involves distancing and displacement, a moving from place to place, or even from homey place into lonely space (Morton 98). This description of irony provides useful tools for understanding how Burtysnky’s photographs in OIL function in relation to the sublime. Though these descriptors typify many of Burtysnky’s photographs, examining