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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 terror, futility, and alienation of modern life in the wake of World War I.
Quick answer: The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a depiction of the modern world overlaid with quotations from literature in different languages and cultural allusions that people like Eliot...
This paper seeks to highlight that as a narrative poem, The Waste Land uses an abundance of narrations, descriptions and dialogues, while exploring how these various elements aid the poet to adopt a modernist narrative style in his poetry. Index Terms—The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot, narrative style, narrative voices.
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?
This study explores and analyses these aspects of meaninglessness and absurdity in The Waste Land (1930) in the light of Sartre’s philosophy and contends to say that almost all of the characters presented in the poem encounter meaningless and chaotic lives.
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In his article “Rejuvenating T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land,” Ghanim Samarrai brings attention to the extensive Arabic translations of Eliot’s poem and its deep influence on modern Arabic poetry, especially Badr As-Sayâb’s Unshudat al-Matar (Hymn of Rain).
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In sum, for Eliot, as for Freud, the study of the psychology of the neuroses is important for an understanding of the growth of civilization. 2 Perhaps Eliot’s famil- iarity of Frazer would have been one of the strongest motives to understand Freud.
