The document provides an analysis of T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land" in 3 parts:
1. It summarizes the poem's structure consisting of 5 sections that use collages of images and allusions to myths.
2. It analyzes major themes of spiritual/cultural malaise in the modern world and the universality of the themes of life/death.
3. It discusses how characters like Tiresias and the use of mythical techniques give unity and provide cultural context for the poem's fragmented images.
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The Waste land it’s a epic poem. A poem made of collage of images. In ‘The Waste land’ Image and symbol take in city life.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
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During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.
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The Waste land it’s a epic poem. A poem made of collage of images. In ‘The Waste land’ Image and symbol take in city life.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.
The full name of James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) is James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
He is an early 20th century Irish novelist and poet.
Joyce is one of the pioneers of ‘stream of consciousness’ technique in novel and a new type of poetry called ‘Prose Poem’.
He is one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century also.
He used the style of ‘the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives’.
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This presentation is about T.S Eliot best poem "Waste Land".This poem Divided into main 5 parts and here this all five parts discussed by me in my presentation.
The Waste Land poem was written by T.S.Eliot. A wasteland is someplace that's empty and desolate, with no sign of life or growth. An area may be a wasteland because of toxic materials in the soil, or due to climate conditions like strong winds.
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The full name of James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) is James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
He is an early 20th century Irish novelist and poet.
Joyce is one of the pioneers of ‘stream of consciousness’ technique in novel and a new type of poetry called ‘Prose Poem’.
He is one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century also.
He used the style of ‘the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives’.
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Prepared by Ahmad Hussain, Department of English,
Abdul Wali khan University Mardan.
Email: mr.literature123@gmail.com
Facebook page link for Literary students: www.facebook.com/englitpearls
This presentation is about T.S Eliot best poem "Waste Land".This poem Divided into main 5 parts and here this all five parts discussed by me in my presentation.
The Waste Land poem was written by T.S.Eliot. A wasteland is someplace that's empty and desolate, with no sign of life or growth. An area may be a wasteland because of toxic materials in the soil, or due to climate conditions like strong winds.
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2. A Poem in Five Parts
• The Burial of the Dead
• A Game of Chess
• The Fire Sermon
• Death by Water
• What the Thunder Said
3. A poem made of Collage of Images
• Apart from these titular images, the poem is
nothing but collage of seemingly distinct
images.
4. A Burial of the Dead
• Landscape scene: April, Winter, Spring shower…
• Marie in the mountains after coffee
• Landscape scene: deserted place, rocks, no
water, fear in handful of dust, heap of broken
images
• Hyacinth girl
• Madam Sosostris – tarot cards, hanged man,
drowned sailor
• Unreal city; London bridge, death undone
somany, Stetson, buried corpse, Dog.
5. A Game of Chess
• Xylograph in Lady’s chamber
• Carvings of Nightingale – Myth of Philomela –
barbarous king Terues
• Dialogue / monologue between two person
without identity – You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you
remember Nothing? . . . Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?"
• Scene in coffee-shop: Lil, her husband Albert.
“And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door”
6. The Fire Sermon
• To Carthage then I came
• Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest
7. Death by Water
• Phlebas the Phoenician
• A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
• Gentle or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and
tall as you.
8. What the Thunder Said
“Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih”
• The Peace that passeth all understanding
9. Thematic Reading
• Spiritual draught leading towards sexual
perversion
• Sexual perversion leading towards spiritual
draught
• Good and Evil: “. . . So far as we are human, what
we do must be either evil or good; so far as we do
evil or good, we are human; and it is better, in a
paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at
least, we exist” (Baudelaire -1921)
• Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was
a French poet, critic and translator
10. Thematic Reading
• Life in Death and Death in Life: “Of hardly less
importance to reader, however, is a knowledge of
Eliot’s basic method. The Waste Land is built on a
major contrast – a device which is a favorite of
Eliot’s and is to be found in many of his poems,
particularly his later poems. The contrast is
between two kinds of life and two kinds of death.
Life devoid of meaning is death; sacrifice, even
the sacrificial death, may be life-giving, an
awakening to life. The poem occupies itself to a
great extent with this paradox, and with a
number of variations upon it.
• ~Cleanth Brooks
• The Waste Land: Critique of the Myth (1939)
11. Thematic Reading
• Western society had exhausted its spiritual and
cultural legacy. The socio-cultural malaise that
affected Western Society in the 1920’s is very
effectively projected by Eliot in his poem The
Waste Land. In its epic sweep, it captures the
near collapse of 2000 years of Western
civilization.
• I.A.Richards and Cleanth Brooks agree that this
poem is essentially a religious poem – a Christian
poem. The Christian material is at the centre, but
the poet never deals with it directly.
12. Universality of Theme
• F.O.Matthiessen reveals the resembling contrast
between the past and present to give universality to
this modern epic poem.
• Sexual sins, perversion of sex, have always let to
degeneration and decay. Examples of Fisher King,
Oedipus and Thebes, Philomela, Elizabeth and
Leicester etc
• In all these respect, the present resembles the past.
• In past suffering and penance resulted in spiritual
regeneration and return to good spiritual health.
• The achievement of T. S. Eliot: an essay on the nature of poetry
~ Francis Otto Matthiessen (1935)
13. Universality of Theme
• “Although the Waste Land may begin with the
dilemma of the modern mind, it discovers that
the modern dilemma is the historic dilemma,
and to limit the poem’s meaning to being
primarily the expression of modern lack of
faith is to mistake its form and scope.”
• The Art of T.S. Eliot ~ Helen Gardner (1949)
14. Central Theme
• “The gist of the poem is apparently a wild revolt
from the abomination of desolation which is
human life, combined with a belief in salvation by
the usual catchwords of renunciation – this
salvation being also the esoteric significance of
the savage fertility-rituals found in the Golden
Bough, a watering, as it were, of the desert of the
suffering soul.”
• “The Waste Land” – New Statesman 22 (3 Nov 1923)
~ F.L. Lucas
15. Unity of the Poem
• Tiresias: “. . . though blind,
throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female
breasts”
• He is the thread of the rosary
who knots various beads
together – gives unifying effect
seemingly disjointed mumbo-
jumbo ‘The Waste Land’.
16. Unity of the Poem
• Tiresias
• Blind and spiritually embittered, old
and impotent
• Wandering about in great
quest, stands for modern man in quest
of true spiritual light and viable moral
values.
• What he sees in the substance of the
poem
• ‘The Waste Land’ is his stream of
consciousness, and embittered
conscience of Human civilization
17. Unity of the Poem
• Mythical Technique:
– It provides a pattern, a way of controlling and
ordering and giving shape to what is shapeless and chaotic
– It provides a norm for measuring the extent of degeneracy in
contemporary Europe.
– It shows that the present spiritual predicament is an ever-recurring
phenomena and so a universal significance is imparted to it
– It emphasises the wide gulf which separated the present godless
humanity for the early human society when spiritual values where
intact.
– It helps poet to put together the time and space – compress whole
ages within a short span and poem gains comprehensiveness.
Thus, what requires 12 cantos to say, is effectively said in 5 small
parts of poem.
• Myths form the part of collective consciousness. It helps poet
in communicating his meaning with minimal explanation.
18. Unity of the Poem: Oneness of Characters
• Aesthetically merging erudition and emotion
through a cacophony of diverse and often
dissonant voices, ‘The Waste Land’ serves as a
microcosm of the modern state of mind and the
state of the world itself.
• The personality and experiences of individuals
are fused together, obscuring boundaries to form
a richly layered paradigm of the universal
psyche…
• The character are rather symbolic than individual.
~ Rebecca Howden
19. The Structure of the Poem
• The structure is that of spiral up and down. The
poem proceeds with deeper and deeper probing
into the modern malaise. Throughout the poem we
come back to the same point, but at different levels.
• I.A. Richards ‘The Principles of Literary Criticism’
(1926) calls it ‘Music of Ideas: Ideas of all kinds,
abstract and concrete, general and particular, are
arranged like the musician’s phrases – not that they
may provide information or tell us something – but
that their effects in us may combine into a coherent
whole of feeling and attitude and produce a peculiar
liberation of the will. They are there to be
responded to, not to be pondered or worked out’.
21. Some points to ponder . . .
• Shantih in ‘The Waste Land’.
• Upanishadic Perceptions in ‘The Waste Land’.
• The Waste Land and the Upanishad: What the
Thunder Said?
• These articles can be read on:
– http://www.jstor.org/stable/2927003
– http://www.jstor.org/stable/23330564
– http://www.jstor.org/stable/20479528
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