Waste land
The Waste Land
‘The Waste Land’,by T.S.Eliot, is widely regarded as ‘one of the most important poem of 20th century’ and a central text in modernist poetry.Published in 1922,the 434 line poem was first appered in united
Kingdom.Eliot’s poem loosely follows the legend of the holy Grail and Fisher Kin g combined with the
Contemporary condition of British society.He employees many literary and cultural allusions from the western canon,from Buddism and the Hindu Upanishad in the poem.Of course,the waste land is not quite the poem Eliot originally drafted.His close friend and colleague,Ezra Pound,significantly revirsed the poem,suggesting major cuts and compressing.The main features of the book are given below-
Summary of the poem-
The poem’s structure is divided in to five sections.In the first section, “The Burial of Death”,the narrator-perhaps the representation of Eliot himself describes the seasons.spring brings memory and desire and the narrator’s memory drifts back to times in Munich.However the memory go so far.the narrator is nows surrounded by a desolate land full if ‘stony rubbish’.The next season,”A game of Chase”,transport the reader from the streets of London to a gilded drawing room,in which sits a rich, jewel-bedcked lady who complains about her nerves and womders what to do.Here with in a few stanzas,we have moved from the upper crust of society to London’s low life.”Fire Sermons”,the third
Section opens with a image of river.The narrator sits on the banks and muses on the deplorable state of world.The poem rerurns to riverwhere maidens sing a song of lament.”Death by a Water”,the fourth section,describes a death Phoenician iying in the water-perhaps the same drowned sailor of whom Madame sosostris spoke.The last section was “What the Thunder Said”.Here the narrator cries for rain and finally it comes.
Style of the poem
The style of the work in part grows out of Eliot’s interest in exploring the possibilities of dramatic
‘The Waste Land’,by T.S.Eliot, is widely regarded as ‘one of the most important poem of 20th century’ and a central text in modernist poetry.Published in 1922,the 434 line poem was first appered in united
Kingdom.Eliot’s poem loosely follows the legend of the holy Grail and Fisher Kin g combined with the
Contemporary condition of British society.He employees many literary and cultural allusions from the western canon,from Buddism and the Hindu Upanishad in the poem.Of course,the waste land is not quite the poem Eliot originally drafted.His close friend and colleague,Ezra Pound,significantly revirsed the poem,suggesting major cuts and compressing.The main features of the book are given below-
Summary of the poem-
The poem’s structure is divided in to five sections.In the first section, “The Burial of Death”,the narrator-perhaps the representation of Eliot himself describes the seasons.spring brings memory and desire and the narrator’s memory drifts back to times in Munich.However the memory go so far.the narrator is nows surrounded by a desolate land full if ‘stony rubbish’.The next season,”A game of Chase”,transport the reader from the streets of London to a gilded drawing room,in which sits a rich, jewel-bedcked lady who complains about her nerves and womders what to do.Here with in a few stanzas,we have moved from the upper crust of society to London’s low life.”Fire Sermons”,the third
Section opens with a image of river.The narrator sits on the banks and muses on the deplorable state of world.The poem rerurns to riverwhere maidens sing a song of lament.”Death by a Water”,the fourth section,describes a death Phoenician iying in the water-perhaps the same drowned sailor of whom Madame sosostris spoke.The last section was “What the Thunder Said”.Here the narrator cries for rain and finally it comes.
Style of the poem
The style of the work in part grows out of Eliot’s interest in exploring the possibilities of dramatic