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T.S ELIOT AND THE WAST LAND
WORK
1922
the wast Land, it is said to be the single most influential poetic work of the twentieth century
1925
The Hollow Men, a sequel to the Waste Land
Before
the conversion he had a
pessimistic
vision of the world.
After his conversion his key words of works were
purification
,
hope
and
joy.
LIFE
1922
He published
The Waste Land
1925
He became a
director
for the publishers Faber & Faber
1917
He established himself as an important
avant-garde poet
1927
He baemes a British citizen and joins the
Church of England
1915
He was
unhappily married
to British ballet dancer
1930
For the next thirty years he was considered
the most dominant
figure in literary criticism in the English-speaking world and in poetry
1910
he studied in Paris at the
Sorbonne
1965
he
died
in London
1888
he was born in St. Louis, Missouri
WORLD VISION
Loss of faith
Unstable
Chaotic
Confused sense of identity
Pessimistic
Collapse of moral values
THE IMPERSONALITY OF THE ARTIST
The poet does not have a personality to express, he has a
medium
and not a personality.
The emotion of art is
impersonal
Eliot shared the vision of the importance of
separating
"the
suffering man
" from the "
creative mind
".
The artist then had to be
impersonal
.
THE WAST LAND
THE MYTHICAL METHOD
poetic culture is the living unity of all poems written in
different
eras
In Waste Land, the present and the past exist
simultaneously
.
classicism as the
ability
to see the past as a concrete premise for the present
Changes in time and space are created by the free associations of
thoughts
and
ideas
the concept of history is considered as
repetition
of the
same events
STYLE
The different poetic styles brought together reproduce the
chaos
of
modern civilization
The objective correlative is the use of a
sequence of events
to express a certain emotion and
convey it
to the reader.
Quotes from different
literary works
and
languages
Repeated words, images and phrases are used to
enhance musicality.
Technique of
implication
THEMES
The
contrast
between the
fertility
of a mythical past and the
sterility
of the present
The despair of living in an
alienated
modern world.
The
collapse
of civilisation
The speaking voice is linked to a
multiple personality
beyond the limits of space and time.
I SECTION THE BURIAL OF THE DEATH
The setting is London populated by the
ghosts
of the
dead
.
Contrast
between past and present: the
Punic Wars
between
Rome
and
Carthage
and the clashes of the
First World War.
The episode ends with a famous
phrase
taken from the preface to the famous cursed poet
Baudelaire
, to Les Fleurs du Mal
CONTENT
FIVE SECTIONS
IV Death by Water
reinforces the idea of a spiritual shipwreck;
II A Game of Chess
focuses on the contrast between the squalor of the present and the splendor of the past
V
What the
Thunder
Said depicts a possible solution in a kind of sympathy with other human beings.
I The Burial of the Dead
concerns the opposition between life and the death.
III The Fire Sermon
represents the alienation of the present through a loveless sexual encounter;