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Jul 4, 2020 · Mr. Eliot uses the Waste Land as the concrete image of a spiritual drouth. His poem takes place half in the real world—the world of contemporary London, and half in a haunted wilderness— the Waste Land of mediaeval legend; but the Waste Land is only the hero’s arid soul and the intolerable world about him.
Sep 8, 2020 · Remove Ads. In 1922, T.S. Eliot, an American living in England, published The Waste Land, widely viewed as perhaps the greatest and most iconic poem of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf recognized its power immediately, praising it for its “great beauty and force of phrase: symmetry and tensity.”. And yet, as nearly a hundred years’ worth ...
Death in life/living death. From the poem’s epigraph onwards, the idea of a living death is established as one of the key themes of The Waste Land. The epigraph is from Petronius’ scurrilous Roman novel, Satyricon. The speaker sees the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage or bottle, and when he asks her what she wants, the Sibyl replies, ‘I ...
A good deal of The Family Reunion reads like a dramatic gloss on the sexual disturbance and elegiac commemoration of The Waste Land. The original epigraph that Eliot had proposed for the poem was Conrad’s “The horror! the horror!” and a more precise knowledge of that inner horror and disgust may perhaps be seen in Harry’s speech in the play:
The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is arguably the most important poem of the whole twentieth century. It remains a timely poem, even though its origins were very specifically the post-war Europe of 1918-22. Written by T. S. Eliot, who was then beginning to make a name for himself following the publication (and modest success) of his ...
Nov 10, 2022 · The arrival of Matthew Hollis’s The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, one of a number of publications marking the poem’s centenary in 2022, provides an opportunity for both new readers and devotees to get to grips with Eliot’s work. The poem’s story unfolds through Hollis’s expert interweaving of Eliot’s life along with that of its ...
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Sep 26, 2022 · Against the blackened wall of All Hallows by the Tower, there was a performance of Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.”. Elsewhere, as a nod to the presence of the single word ...
