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Modernist themes and tropes in The Wasteland …
Modernist themes and tropes in
The Wasteland
Post-war Dillusionment
inescapable past push towards judgement
reaction to horrors
industrialism widespread urbanisation
angst and uncertainty
past as spectral something troubling
horrifying, alienating, existential crisis
haunts protagonist
moment of ruin
past failed
images of barrenness and death
horror left in wake
major underlying theme in modernist texts
unprecedented scale of war
crisis of meaning
certainties removed from those involved
The Waste Land
written in aftermath of WW1
vast range of intertextuality
poem captures old and new
T.S. Elliot
text questions who has power
434 line poem
stylistic and thematic
literary modernism
fragmentary narrative
abandon old traditions for new
modernist view
rapidly globalizing world
Unstable Narrative Voice
literary feature of modernism
does not signal to reader who is talking
content and context
fragmented
different viewpoints or narratives
reader must work to make meaning out of fragment narrative
Ideal Reader
rarefield implied
demands of reader
modernist
complexity of poem
multi lingual quotations
web of allusions
correct world
implied reader
imaginary reader
correct world
process and understand text
certain level of intellectual knowledge to process meanings
text on own terms
Intertextuality and Transtextuality
meaning creation due to reader
cross barriers of space and time within texts
permeable resource
literary allusions
french lines
challenging element
sanskrit
Religious texts
bible
hindu
hypotexts and hypertexts
finds connections
reveals power and voice
text independent to author
rich and excessive in mental acuity
Environmental form
Eliot favors rhythmical variation and asymmetry
poem five parts
not consistent
no meter
poetic devices
juxtaposition settings and voices
themes
object correlative
alliteration
creates story
form suites content
not formal structure
modernist feature
Ezra Pound
justification of movement of our modern experiment
The Wasteland
dedicated to him
imaginist
paved way for Elliot
experimental form
