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
innovative style
different poetic style, such as blank verse and free verse
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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
simply way to give a atmosphere of futility an aura of mysticism
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