126 The Ocean-Desert: The Ancient Mariner and. The Waste Land FLORENCE MARSH WHEN Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land are juxtaposed‚ the two poems become mutually illuminating. Nor is the juxtaposition arbitrary‚ since both are essentially religious poems concerned with salvation. In both‚ the protagonist needs to recover from a living death‚ from spiritual dryness. Structurally‚ The Waste Land has almost no narrative thread‚ no story‚ but it sounds motifs that
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"The Waste Land" is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot caused a sensation when it was published in 1922. It is today the most widely translated and studied English-language poem of the twentieth century. This is perhaps surprising given the poem’s length and its difficulty‚ but Eliot’s vision of modern life as plagued by sordid impulses‚ widespread apathy‚ and pervasive soullessness packed a punch when readers first encountered it. Pound’s influence on the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant
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Personalization of History in "Murder in the Cathedral" T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri. He went to school at Harvard and‚ after graduating‚ lived in England. It was here that he was employed as a schoolmaster‚ a bank clerk‚ and a literary editor for a publishing house called Faber & Faber. After working there for a number of years he became a director. Eliot ’s poetry shows the growth of a poet with devout religious views‚ but Eliot was always careful not to become a religious poet. He
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1 AWARENESS OF THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD IN CHORUSES FROM ‘THE ROCK’ BY T.S. ELIOT Comments by Monsignor Luigi Giussani 1 Choruses from ‘The Rock’ 2by T. S. Eliot can be read according to a sequence of three stages. It starts with the chorus in which the position of the Church is opposed to the position of a world that doesn’t want it any longer (Chorus I). The Christians (Chorus II) must try to resist and live‚ to walk‚ to struggle in this world that doesn’t want them any longer. But they
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Stability versus Change and Metamorphosis in T.S. Eliot ’s The Waste Land. When one reads The Waste Land for the first time‚ it may be difficult to extract some clear meanings out of the poem. The common reader is used to expect some uniformity and wholeness‚ some kind of unity or continuity in one or various aspects in any piece of writing he or she comes across. Therefore‚ when one has to face a poem like this one‚ the sensation of puzzlement‚ confusion and powerlessness is unavoidable. Even
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enrichment of content and meaning in the poem. There is an attempt to convey the Cubist traits and find concrete examples in the poem. This study will try to specify evidences for conformity of cubism and multiplicity of narration in the poem. While Eliot juxtaposed so many perspectives in seemingly set of disjointed images‚ there is “painful task of unifying ..‚ jarring and incompatible perspectives“ in The Waste Land. Like a cubist painting‚ there is a kind of variety of narration in unity through
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impossibility of giving a final or absolute interpretation of reality. An important modernist poet is Thomas Eliot‚ he focused on the squallor of XX century’s society and the urban life. Thomas Stearn Eliot was born into the Eliot family of St. Louis‚ Missouri. From 1898 to 1905‚ Eliot was student at Smith Academy‚ a preparatory school for Washington University. At the academy‚ Eliot studied Latin‚ Greek‚ French‚ and German. Upon graduation‚ he could have gone to Harvard University‚ but his
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accurately the sources of ‘The Waste Land’ to specific writing or works of Literature apart from well known origins such as Jessiv Weston’s – ‘From Ritual to Romance 1920 and James Frazer’s ‘The Golden Bough’ 1922. These two books have been identified by Eliot himself‚ along with a number of vegetation and fertility myths and rituals‚ especially those connected with ‘Attis‚ Adonis and Osiris‘. However‚ we do read the echoes of Ovid’s – ‘Metamorphoses’‚ St. Augustine’s ‘Confession’‚ Dante’s- ‘Inferno’ and
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G. Rudzewicz June‚ 2013 A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE USING PUBLIC DOMAIN E-TEXTS I. The Anglo-Saxon Period A. Beowulf Gutenberg Project‚ e-text #981 B. The Seafarer C. Supplementary links a. suttonhoo.org b. staffordshirehoard.org.uk c. labyrinth.georgetown.edu II. The Middle Ages A. The Canterbury Tales‚ GP etext#2383 1. General Prologue 2. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 3. “The Pardoner’s Tale” B. Popular Lyrics and Ballads C. Everyman GP etext#19481‚ Ernest Phelps‚ ed
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Dedication by Czeslaw Milosz You whom I could not save pay attention to me. Try to comprehend this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I vow‚ there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me‚ for you was lethal. You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one‚ Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty‚ Blind force with accomplished shape. Here is the valley of shallow Polish rivers. And an immense
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