The Waste Land Group at eNotes

The allusive structure, as is pretty well known, is a Modernist trope of...

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 03:18:42 PST

The allusive structure, as is pretty well known, is a Modernist trope of sorts whereby the the high-culture-low culture split is exercised, realistic representation is withheld and the intertextual web generates its own poetic meaning via difference and repetition. The reference to Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy comes right at the end of the fifth section "Waht The Thunder Said." The exact line is "Hieronymo's mad againe." This is a...

It is difficult to judge, you see. The landscape is too too bleak in T....

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:34:12 PST

It is difficult to judge, you see. The landscape is too too bleak in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to think of a championing, sublime and salvationist notion of art. But that is not to say, it has no role at all. The artist figure in the world of the poem is like that old, humiliated and disbelieved prophet Tiresias. He dares to speak the truth however bitter and horrible it may be but is never trusted. He still tells the truth, nonetheless....

The reality that Eliot describes in The Waste Land, as the very title...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:23:24 PST

The reality that Eliot describes in The Waste Land, as the very title suggests, is nothing but "a heap of broken images." Like a fearless Modernist, he unveils the unreality of what we consider real as he says, humankind can take in so little of the real. Reality in terms of the post-war history or as Eliot admitted later, of his troubled mind insists him on a breakdown of reality, stressing disconnection, lack of moral or spiritual values or...

It is one of the most relevant and memorable, if not haunting passages...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:14:18 PST

It is one of the most relevant and memorable, if not haunting passages in the whole of The Waste Land. The London Bridge passage is a great example of peopled solitude--how in a mass of "madding crowd's ignoble strife," all the layers of individuality are unknotted. The individual dissolves in a shapeless chaos of the circuitous collective life, which hardly has any significance or connectivity on psycho-moral or spiritual way. It is a...

Is there relevance in his mentioning London in Part I of The Waste Land?

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:20:10 PST

Is there relevance in his mentioning London in Part I of The Waste Land?

the main theme of the poem is that modern man is materialistic and is...

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:45:19 PST

the main theme of the poem is that modern man is materialistic and is running behind wordly objects.he is far away from nature and all this is happened to modern men after industrialization. so this materialistic attitude has taken man far away from nature and modern man has lost spiritual beauty.

i want enough explanation about the daily life images in the waste land...

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:40:50 PST

i want enough explanation about the daily life images in the waste land for T.S.Eliot??

Is The Waste Land(The burial of the dead) a document of western world?

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:34:34 PST

Is The Waste Land(The burial of the dead) a document of western world?

It isn't easy to summarize this poem. There are so many images...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:44:50 PST

It isn't easy to summarize this poem. There are so many images embedded, and a succinct summary will leave much out, but I will do my best for you. The first part, entitled "The Burial of the Dead" is about death, just as the title suggests. The images are of the changes in seasons, the passing of time, the death of plants, etc. in the midst of spring turning to summer which in turn changes to fall, and then winter. There are also...

Could you please summarize the poem "The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot?

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:52:54 PST

Could you please summarize the poem "The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot?

what is the technical devices in the waste land?

Tue, 12 May 2009 18:40:52 PST

what is the technical devices in the waste land?

I think that money in the waste land is a means of spiritual death....

Tue, 12 May 2009 07:21:56 PST

I think that money in the waste land is a means of spiritual death. People are just looking for it and simply neglecting the moral values and principles. Modern human relationships are therfore deteriorating and people are physically alive but morally dead.

Are we really wastelanders?

Tue, 12 May 2009 07:10:35 PST

Are we really wastelanders?

I want the analysis of Unreal City in The Waste Land.

Sat, 2 May 2009 01:58:50 PST

I want the analysis of Unreal City in The Waste Land.

What is the significance of art in The Waste Land?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:19:32 PST

What is the significance of art in The Waste Land?

what is the significance of money in the wast land?

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:28:53 PST

what is the significance of money in the wast land?

What is the importance of colours in "The Wasteland"?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:00:24 PST

What is the importance of colours in "The Wasteland"?

Eliot use the color red in various places throughout the poem: in lines...

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:19:12 PST

Eliot use the color red in various places throughout the poem: in lines 25 and 26, speaking of the "red rock," at the beginning of Section IV, "after the torchlight red on sweaty faces," and in a few other places, too. Generally, red is symbolic of intense emotion, violence, and fire. Another color Eliot uses repeatedly is brown, to describe the fog in line 61, to describe the land in line 175,and in a few other places. What do you think about...

I think that the Waste Land shows a deep depression in the side of...

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:51:47 PST

I think that the Waste Land shows a deep depression in the side of Eliot. It is said that he wrote more lines than those we see in the poem and it was edited by his friend Ezra Pound. This shows that Eliot wrote this poem where it was a flow of ideas and thoughts motivated by despair caused by two things contextualised the time of writing the poem: The aftermath of WWI and the troubled marriage of Eliot with Vivien. It might remains under...

Unreal city under the rown fog of a winter noon ................at the...

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 04:17:59 PST

Unreal city under the rown fog of a winter noon ................at the Metropole