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The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot) - Coggle Diagram
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
the structure
: the poem consists in 434 lines divided into five section
The fire Sermon
Death by Water
A Game of Chess
What the Thunder Said
The Burial of the Dead
Fragmentation
The poet uses fragmentation immages of historical narrative to mirror
The mythical method
simply way to give a atmosphere of futility an aura of mysticism
innovative style
different poetic style, such as blank verse and free verse
partecipation of the reader/public
metaphors and symbols
technique of the "objective correlative"
the attempt at comunicating philosophical reflections and feelings by means of a smile, a descripion of a monologue in order to provide a vision of the world
Allusion and new concept of history
classicism
ability to see the past a concrete premise for the present
use of quotations from the Bible and other holy texts
Eliot thinks that history is a circle where the same things happen in loop