In The Waste Land: An Analysis By Cleanth Brooks Jr.

In the Waste Land: An Analysis by Cleanth Brooks, Jr. continues to have multiple quotation that are considered to be noteworthy, significant, and revealing to the ongoing argument that has been made by the other critics. Is when Cleanth Brooks, Jr. referees to lines that says “Where fisherman lounge at noon: where the walls/Of Magnus Martyr hold” (209) indicates the poverty that religion has fallen. This explains that Brooks, Jr. was able to notice that T.S. Elliot was frustrated in this specific topic. Another important quotation that Cleanth Brooks, Jr. makes is that he believes that the “poem would undoubtedly be “clearer” if every symbol had one, unequivocal meaning; but the poem would be thinner and less honest” (209). This tells that