strict social code of behavior. The devastation left from WWI‚ the absence of hope and faith and the loss of values contributed to many authors’ feelings that the world lacked purpose. This is visible in literary works: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot. Modernism generally encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements. The premodernist world is characterized by sense of order and stability‚ rooted in: morality‚ faith‚ collective
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What is wasted in “The Great Gatsby”? In what sense Gatsby’s a waste. The Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” is a chronicle of its times. Times of prohibition‚ bootleggers and economical prosperity‚ but also the times of people still recalling the World War I‚ those who try to forget its horror and compensate all the harms suffered‚ with the life full of luxury. The period of 1920s‚ so called Roaring Twenties‚ is the time when the United States experienced cultural revolution
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The Waste Land‚ a 434-line modernist poem by T.S. Eliot revolves around a world of what seems to be chaotic and dead‚ and led by a single protagonist. Throughout The Waste Land‚ there are many uses of symbolism with tarot cards‚ astrology‚ and especially the game of chess: The game of chess is such a meaningful symbol throughout the story‚ that metaphors are used to describe the situation and emotions of the characters throughout the poem by describing them as chess pieces and in check-mate situations
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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
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The Waste Land: T. S. Eliot’s Journey of Realization and Revelation Cara Williams Course: English 122 Honors Instructor: Dr. James Walter Essay Type: Literary Analysis The Waste Land‚ by T. S. Eliot‚ appeared at a time when European society was not quite sure what to do with itself. Europe had just emerged from World War I‚ a war which had traumatized the continent and its society. Many felt the world was chaotic and inhumane. A sense of disillusionment and cynicism became pronounced and nihilism1
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‘The Waste Land’. These are related to various symbolic Waste Lands in modern times such as ( a ) The Waste Land‚ religion where there are but no water ( b ) The Waste Land of spirit‚ where all moral springs are dried up and ( c ) The Waste Land of the reproductive instinct where sex has become a means of physical gratification rather than a source of regeneration. The Wasteland is mainly concerned with the theme of barrenness in the mythical Waste Land of the twentieth century. The land has lost
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The Allusions in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land The Waste Land is an important poem. It has something important to say and it should have an important effect on the reader. But it is not easy. In Eliot’s own words: "We can say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization as it exists at present‚ must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity‚ and this variety and complexity‚ playing upon a refined sensibility‚ must produce various and complex results. The
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Sweet Thames In the poem‚ The Waste Land‚ there are many images given that help to allude to a deeper meaning and give a hidden feeling to what is being read. In the third part of the poem‚ the lines “Sweet Thames‚ run softly‚ till I end my song.” (Part III‚ line 5) give the feeling of mourning and gloom. This feel is directly related to the lines that follow which talk about crying and death. The mood for the rest of the part has dark and ominous setting because of this line. The image is added
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in T.S.Eliot ’s The Waste Land? Faith and belief‚ or the lack of it‚ has always played a major part in T.S. Eliot’s canon; perhaps more than any other Modernist writer‚ Eliot reflects the zeitgeist that was described by Spears Brooker (1994) as “characterized by a collapse of faith in human innate goodness and in the inevitability of progress.” (Brooker Spears‚ 1994‚ p.61) To this end‚ this paper looks at how such issues are represented in Eliot’s early work The Waste Land (1989) that‚ as we shall
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Towards the end of The Waste Land‚ the poetic voice says: ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’ (Eliot‚ The Waste Land‚ p. 140). Discuss this assertion in relation to the entire poem. In this part of the presentation I will be looking at Eliot’s fragmented form which produces a chaotic effect‚ and then discuss how the voice of the speaker who says ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’ might bring the poem together to form an order and a platform for the blend of images‚ languages
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