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Use of Symbolism in "The Waste land” 
Roll no:03 Semester-3 Year-2014-15 
Bharat Bhammar 
Paper-9 (Modernist Literature) 
Submitted to: Department of English 
S.B Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji 
Bhavnagar University
Symbolism 
 Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and 
qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are 
different from their literal sense. Some time an action, an 
event or a word spoken by someone may have a 
symbolic value.
 An object 
 Picture 
 Written word 
 Sound 
 Language 
What can be a symbol ?
Various 
symbols 
in The 
Waste 
land 
Water 
The Fisher king 
Religion 
Animals 
Drought 
Characters 
City 
River 
Buddhism 
Season 
Thunder 
Landscape
Death 
Resurrection 
Birth 
Symbols of Water 
Water
Water 
provides 
solace 
Water 
cleanses 
Water 
brings 
relief
 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.”
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. If we see it traditionally 
we find that the importance of 
death of the Fisher King brought 
unhappiness and famine.
Religion 
 I.A.Richards and Cleanth 
Brooks believe the poem to be 
religious. The Christian myth of 
King Fisher shows that 
regeneration is possible through 
penance and suffering. The 
poem ends with Shantih, 
Shantih, and Shantih. Vedic 
recitation ends with Universal 
theme of nonviolence and peace.
Animals 
 Rat could be said to provide a 
model for Eliot`s poetic process. 
Like the rat Eliot uses the bits 
and pieces to sustain poetic life. 
Somehow this is preferable to 
the more coherent but vulgar 
existence of the contemporary 
world.
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” 
Death
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 two women in the second section represent two sides 
of modern sexuality. One side is dry, barren the other side 
is rampant fecundity showing a lack of culture and rapid 
again, Cleopatra, Dido, Lomia and Philomela are referred 
here.
 Eliot’s London references 
City 
Baudelaire’s Paris (Unreal city), 
Dickens’s London (“the brown fog of 
a winter dawn) and Dante’s hell (“the 
flowing crowed of the dead are 
similar. The city is desolate and 
depopulated, inhabited only by ghosts 
from the past. 
 Cities are destroyed, rebuilt and 
destroyed mirroring the cyclical 
downfall of cultures. Jerusalem, 
Greece, Egypt and Austria among the 
major empires of the past two 
millennia all see their capitals fall
Destruction 
construction. 
River
Non-violence and 
peace 
Buddhism
“I read much of the night 
and go south in the winter “. 
Season
Thunder
Landscape
Symbolism in the Waste Land

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Symbolism in the Waste Land

  • 1. Use of Symbolism in "The Waste land” Roll no:03 Semester-3 Year-2014-15 Bharat Bhammar Paper-9 (Modernist Literature) Submitted to: Department of English S.B Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
  • 2. Symbolism  Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. Some time an action, an event or a word spoken by someone may have a symbolic value.
  • 3.  An object  Picture  Written word  Sound  Language What can be a symbol ?
  • 4. Various symbols in The Waste land Water The Fisher king Religion Animals Drought Characters City River Buddhism Season Thunder Landscape
  • 5. Death Resurrection Birth Symbols of Water Water
  • 6. Water provides solace Water cleanses Water brings relief
  • 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. 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. If we see it traditionally we find that the importance of death of the Fisher King brought unhappiness and famine.
  • 9. Religion  I.A.Richards and Cleanth Brooks believe the poem to be religious. The Christian myth of King Fisher shows that regeneration is possible through penance and suffering. The poem ends with Shantih, Shantih, and Shantih. Vedic recitation ends with Universal theme of nonviolence and peace.
  • 10. Animals  Rat could be said to provide a model for Eliot`s poetic process. Like the rat Eliot uses the bits and pieces to sustain poetic life. Somehow this is preferable to the more coherent but vulgar existence of the contemporary world.
  • 11. 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” Death
  • 12. 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 two women in the second section represent two sides of modern sexuality. One side is dry, barren the other side is rampant fecundity showing a lack of culture and rapid again, Cleopatra, Dido, Lomia and Philomela are referred here.
  • 13.  Eliot’s London references City Baudelaire’s Paris (Unreal city), Dickens’s London (“the brown fog of a winter dawn) and Dante’s hell (“the flowing crowed of the dead are similar. The city is desolate and depopulated, inhabited only by ghosts from the past.  Cities are destroyed, rebuilt and destroyed mirroring the cyclical downfall of cultures. Jerusalem, Greece, Egypt and Austria among the major empires of the past two millennia all see their capitals fall
  • 16. “I read much of the night and go south in the winter “. Season