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This is the famous final stanza of The Waste Land (lines 426–33). The poem ends with something of a textual collage made up of fragmentary quotes from nursery rhymes, poems, plays, and sacred texts in five languages. This burst of allusions may certainly be read as a final dissolution of all sense in a shattered and maddened world.
The Anglo-American modernist poet T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was arguably the most influential poet of the twentieth century, and his 1922 poem The Waste Land is regarded variously as the greatest modernist poem, one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century, and a powerful depiction of post-war despair and disillusionment. But trying to ...
- T. S. Eliot
- 1922
- “April is the cruelest month, breeding. lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. memory and desire, stirring. dull roots with spring rain.” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
- “A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only. There is shadow under this red rock,
- “And I will show you something different from either. Your shadow at morning striding behind you. Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you. I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
- “For you know only a heap of broken images” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
The Burial of the Dead. April is the cruellest month The Waste Land begins with a subversion of the first lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. He paints April as a month of restorative power, when spring rain brings nature back to life: “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droghte of March ...
Feb 25, 2017 · A summary of a classic Eliot poem by Dr Oliver Tearle. ‘Little Gidding’ is the last of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, but it is also his last significant poem. What’s more, there is a sense in this poem of Eliot seeking to join the threads of his work together, to ‘set a crown upon a lifetime’s effort’, as he puts it in ‘Little ...
Exploring and The Waste Land. We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot -- "Little Gidding" (the last of his Four Quartets) As T.S. Eliot so eloquently points out, the only way to learn about life (or about poetry) is by exploring ...
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Poem Analyzed by Elise Dalli. T.S. Eliot was no stranger to classical literature. Drawing allusions from everything from the Fisher King to Buddhism, ‘The Waste Land ‘ was published in 1922 and remains one of the most important Modernist texts to date. Modernist poetry, beginning in the early 20th century, advocated experimentation and ...
