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The Significance of the Modern Wasteland - Leavis (1932) - Coggle Diagram
The Significance of the Modern Wasteland
- Leavis (1932)
Disorganisation
disjointedness represents state of society
traditions and cultures mingle = makes past contemporary
Machine age
breach of continuity
uprooting life
remoteness of civilisation vs anthropological themes
Harmony of human culture with natural life
April is the cruellest month
Sex
Sterile
Disgust
accidia
hyacinth girl
memory and desire
Anthropology
sense of unity
Gerontion
Prufrock
beliefs, religions, moralities are human habits
Contemporary consciousness
Consciousness
Eliot = Too conscious
Tiresias
spectator
most NB personage in the poem
what he sees is substance of poem
Phoenecian sailor
All women are one woman
Intimitely aware of the experience of the other sex
Biggest clue - inclusive human consciousness
Psycho-analysis
Ulysses
Lack of direction/ disorganisation
From ritual to romance
needs external support
Tarot pack
chance and eternal mysteries
contemplation of life
Characters have no relation to one another
Fertility ritual
Hooded figure = Chirst
All sacrificed gods
Madame Sosostris
clairvoyante
fate
menacing undertone
What the Thunder said
thirst for waters of faith and healing
thunder without rain
no ressurection/ renewal
hopeless exhaustion
ominousness
hanged man
Journey to Emmaus
Eliot is definite and vague at once
Multitude of experiences meet in each passage
hallucinatory quality
Give, sympathise, control
A Game of Chess
Themes move in and out of eachother
turns from vision to nightmare
Russia and Post-War Europe references
Hooded figure = road to Emmaus
hooded hoardes = russians
invaders of civilisation
round in a ring = endless futility
Fragments
no organisation/ unity
musical
poem ends where it began
buried memories
limited to people with special knowledge
high brow = minority
hostile, overwhelming environment
Shantih
irony
tone = control
Self-subsistent poem
Intertextuality
Allusions, references, quotations
specialist knowledge
Baudelaire, Dante
Antony and Cleopatra
The Tempest
Compressoin, familiarity
Add to the themes
living nor dead
sinister
love vs romantic desolation
inevitable death
Water cannot save
Explicit civilisation
Meaningless horror
