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Modernist Themes and Tropes in The Waste Land - Coggle Diagram
Modernist Themes and Tropes in
The Waste Land
Intertextuality and Transtextuality
Connections across space and time
hypertext and hypotexts
reader creates meaning
Bible, Hindu Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and Buddah's fire sermon
Writers from ancient Rome
Virgil and Ovid
Shakespeare
Conrad
Leaves literary allusions in original language
A rarified implied and ideal reader
Typically modernist
allusions
multi lingual quotes
Art should correct the world
Implied reader
Intellectual knowledge of the reading process
Fragmented and unstable narrative voice
Different viewpoints/ narrators
Content/ context
No unified truth
Post-war disillusionment
Barrenness and death
scale of war
crisis of meaning
horrors of modern warefare
troubling past - haunting
alienating existential crisis
inescapable past
industrialisation/ urbanisation
Experimental form
Rhythmical variation and assymetry
5 Parts
1 - the burial of the dead
2 - A game of Chess
3 - the fire sermon
4 - death by water
5 - what the thunder said
No formal consistent form and meter
repetition of themes
juxtaposition of voices and settings
The Waste Land
434 line poem
1922
Aftermath of WW1
fragmented narrative
changing voices + multiple points of view
modernist view
abandon tradition for new
questions who has power to speak and heard
greatest example of modernist literature
