Sunday, September 20, 2020

The Waste land

20 - September -2020

Hello Readers....

This grate Poem "The Waste Land" written by the most famous writer T. S. Eliot. First we have information about the poem, themes and other points of the poem. 

Thomas Steams Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26,1888. His First book of poems, Prufrock and other observation, was published in 1917, and immediately established him as a leading poet of the avant-garde.

As a poet, he transmuted his affinity for the English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century. His poem in many respects articulated the disillusionment of a younger post- world war 1 generation with the convention both literary and social of the Victorian ear. T.S. Eliot received the Nobel prize for literature in 1948. He died in London on January 04, 1965.

In this poem writer wrote about the land, about the Waste Land. The Waste Land means the land an unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown. In this poem writer use land as metaphor. This poem is divided into 5 parts. The Waste land it's a epic poem. A poem made of collage of images. In 'The Waste land Image and symbol take in city life. T. S Eliot represent the city life people living style. Eliot use complex language and also use mythical technique in the 'The Waste Land'. Poem divided in five parts. Five parts like this:

1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A Game of Chess
3. The fire Sermon
4. Death by Water
5. What the Thunder said.

This first part is about the Landscape Scone "April". In this novel we can show biblical reference their. The first part of the poem the poem is 'The Burial of the Dead. The poem's speaker talk about how spring is an a Horrible time of year stirring up memories of a bygone days and unfulfilled desires. The first part The Burial of the dead stars with this line:

 "April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain........"

In this lines unknown speaker claims that April is the cruelest month, even though we might usually thinking of spring as a time of love. This section title from a line in the Anglican burial service. These recollection from Wagner's operatic version of Tristan and Isolate an Arthurian take of adultery and loss.

This section takes its title from two plays by the early 17th century playwright Thomas Middleton, in one of which the move in a game of chess denote stages in seduction. 

This part start with like this lines:

"The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed in the marble, where the glass, Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines.......


 



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