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The Waste Land :black_flag: - Coggle Diagram
The Waste Land
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The Structure
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III " The Fire Sermon"
Theme of present alienation
IV "Death by Water"
Spiritual shipwreck
II " A Game of chess"
Past ambiguous splendour
V "What the Thunder Said"
religions from East and West
I "The Burial of the Dead"
Opposition between life and death
Fragmentation
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The poet uses fragmented images to mirror his society's reliance on old traditions, customs and aesthetic styles
These images are connected by one main theme: the contrast between the fertility of a mythical past and the spiritual sterility of the present world
Allusion and a new concept of history
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The mythical past appears in the allusions to and quotations from many literary works
Eliot saw history as the repetition of the same events
The mythical method
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He maked references to the May festivities celebrating the rebirth of nature and the Celtic myth
Innovative Style
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The style is fragmentary because of the mixture of different poetic styles because he wanted to represent the chaos of modern civilisation
technique of "objective correlative"
technique of implication
technique of juxtaposition