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1. Symbolism in The Waste Land
Name : Ravi Rajyaguru
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Submitted To : Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
2. Symbolism is a literary element used in
literature to help readers understand a literary
work.
Symbolism is a figure of speech that is used
when an author wants to create a certain mood
or emotion in a work of literature.
4. Symbols in The Waste land
The Fisher King
River
Buddhism
Water
Season
Religion
Human Characters
City
Drought
5. The Fisher King
From ‘Ritual to Romance’
The book is seen for the
connection between ancient
fertility rights and Christianity. It
includes the evolution of the
Fisher King into early
representation of Jesus Christ as
a fish.
Eliot shows the Fisher King as
symbolic of humanity robbed of
its sexuality potency in the
modern world and connected to
the meaninglessness of urban
existence.
7. Although water has regenerating possibility of restoring life and
fertility, it can also lead to drawing and death, as in the case of
Phlebas the sailor from the Waste Land. Traditionally water can
be baptism, Christianity and the figure of Jesus Christ.
“Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves waited for rain,
While the black clouds gathered far distant, over Himavant.”
8. Religion
I.A.Richards and Cleanth Brooks
believe the poem to be religious. Eliot
presents alternative religious
possibilities, including Hindu chants,
Buddhist speeches, and pagan
ceremonies. Later poems take their
images almost exclusively from
Christianity, such as the echoes of the
Lord’s Prayer in “The Hollow Men” and
the retelling of the story of the wise
men in “Journey of the Magi” (1927).
9. The poem ends with
“ Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih Shantih Shanti ”
Vedic recitation ends with Universal theme of
nonviolence and peace.
10. Human Characters
•The characters in the poem are not
the only devices used to invoke
symbolism. The tarot card characters
Phoenician sailor, the hanged man,
the repeated biblical references and
other literary references all serve to
touch upon symbolic value and also
function as objective correlatives
•The Sibyl, Ezra Pound, Madame
Sosostris…..
• Males and females of the Waste
Land have no virtues. They are living
but seems dead. King Fisher, Tiresias,
girls singing in boat, prostitutes are
some such human character.
12. River
Eliot opens "The Fire Sermon"
by painting a pretty dismal
picture of London's Thames
River. In line 176, he quotes the
great English poet Edmund
Spenser, a man who once wrote
love songs about how beautiful
and inspiring the "Sweet
Thames" was. In modern days,
though, Eliot only finds "empty
bottles, sandwich papers, / Silk
handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes,
cigarette ends.”
The river symbolizes the flow
continuity of life.
13. Drought
“Here is no water, but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain”
15. Buddhism
‘The Fire Sermon’ is the
title taken from a sermon
given by Buddha. Buddha
encourages his followers to
give up earthly passion.
Buddha preached
nonviolence and wanted
followers to rise spiritually.
He symbolizes universal
Non violence and peace.
