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Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
- Undead Eliot: How “The Waste Land” Sounds Now
I teach Eliot’s The Waste Land yearly and every time I pick...
- T. S. Eliot
In 1927, T.S. Eliot became a British citizen. In 1915, he...
- The Imaginative Man
In 1926, at the height of modernism’s golden age, a young...
- Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot. Share. Miss Nancy Ellicott. Strode across...
- Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot. Share. Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden...
- The Canterbury Tales
Short was his gowne, with sleves longe and wyde; Wel koude...
- The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot. Share. The readers of the Boston Evening...
- Undead Eliot: How “The Waste Land” Sounds Now
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.
- T. S. Eliot
- 1922
T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, as well as a modernist masterpiece. A dramatic monologue that changes speakers, locations, and times throughout, "The Waste Land" draws on a dizzying array of literary, musical, historical, and popular cultural allusions in order to present the ...
T. S. Eliot opens The Waste Land with an epigraph taken from a Latin novel by Petronius. The epigraph describes a woman with prophetic powers who has been blessed with long life, but who doesn’t stay eternally young. Facing a future of irreversible decrepitude, she proclaims her longing for death.
- The Burial of the Dead. April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain.
- A Game of Chess. The Chair she sat in, like a burnished thone, Glowed on the marble, where the glass. Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines. From which a golden Cupidon peeped out.
- The Fire Sermon. The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf. Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind. Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
- Death by Water. Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell. And the profit and loss. A current under sea.
A comprehensive guide to the modernist masterpiece by T.S. Eliot, with summary, themes, poetic form, and allusions. Learn how the poem explores the death of culture, the search for meaning, and the fragmented modern world.
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Eliot wrote much of “The Waste Land” while convalescing in Lausanne by the lake. The line is also an allusion to Psalm 137, which describes the Israelites being exiled to Babylon: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”
