1. Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.
Presented Date: 1-10-2014
Paper No.: 9/ Modernists Literature
Year: 2014-15
Roll No.: 18
M.A. /Part: 2
Sem.: 3
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3. Use of ‘Myths’ in ‘The Waste Land’: It shows that the present
spiritual predicament is an ever-recurring phenomena and so a
universal significance is imparted to it.
The Waste Land is the modern Epic.
The Myth of the ‘Hollowness of Human Beings’ in ‘Modern
Times’.
Mythified the rituals of Modern men.
Legitimization
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5. Epigraphs- Sibyl.
She typifies, the time woven soul’s
desire to escape from the ‘Wheel’ of
things.
“I want to die”
Nirvana Moksha Salvation
6. Past
Future
In decaying culture, where people are caught in an abandoned
present between a past whose ‘Meaningless’ and a future that
unclear offers ‘No Hope’, superstition trumps faith and anxiety
accompanies every action.
7. *Marie in the
mountains.
*In the mountains,
there you feel
free…Reading much of
the night, and going
south in winter.
8. *The spirit that animates
handful of dust, in the present,
is decaying and sickened one.
10. *The crucifixion represents the
mythological slaughter of God.
*Meaninglessness of Cultural
values.
*For Example Christian culture
* The Death of God renders
human life & human death
meaningless.
12. It means bittersweet longing for things,
persons, or situations of the past.
Memory and Desire.
Tiresias is nostalgic-Stetson, divan…
Satisfaction by Rain gives us illusive
assurance of the revitalization of dead
past/memory.
