This document summarizes a student paper about T.S. Eliot's long poem "The Waste Land". The poem is divided into five sections and uses mythical references and techniques to symbolize the spiritual decay of contemporary early 20th century society. It was an important work that marked a shift in English poetry to Modernism. The student will analyze how Eliot employs mythical methods of either expanding on or compressing impressions and emotions through the objective correlative of the wasteland.

1. Topic
:- The Mythical Technique in
the Waste Land.
Paper-9
:- The Modernist Literature
Name
:- Devendra A Joshi
Class
:- M.A. Sem-1
Submitted To :- Smt. S. B. Gardi
Department of English
(Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University)

2. T. S. Eliot‟s
 „The West Land‟
 Important Landmark
 History of English Poetry
 20th Century
 Long poem
 Four Hundred forty lines

3. Five parts entitled
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.


The Burial of the Dead,
A Game of chess,
The Fire Serman,
Death by Water and
What the Thunder Said
First Publication
A Storm of adverse criticism

4.  First publication
 A storm
 Adverse Criticism

5. The Mythical Background
 Himself has acknowledged
 Deeply influenced
 Works or anthropology
 The ancient and primitive
myths
 Mythical Land
 Symbolizes contemporary
 Decay and spiritual sterility

6.  Mythical Method
 Germanton
 The Nightingales
 Other poems
 Volume the poem
 Eliot uses
 Criticism of the present

7. Used in either of the two ways
Expansion
Compression

8. According to A.G.George
“A series of emotions and impressions of
the poet which are expressed though the
objective correlative of the mythical
waste lands, a series of emotions and also
impressions which originate in the poet‟s
mind as he survey human life in the
present as well as in the past.”

9. Thank you