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Introduction to The Waste Land Hana Al Yaqubi Amani Inshassi Outline - T.S.Eliot - Modernism - About the Waste Land - Summary - Themes - Allusions T.S Eliot : - Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, of New England stock. He Entered Harvard in the year of 1906. - His poetry first appeared in 1915 , and his first published collection of poems was Prufrock“ and Other Observations in 1917 . The Waste Land appeared in 1922. - He was affected by the clear and precise images of the imagists, and the suggestive images of the French symbolists and the the combination of wit and passion of the metaphysical poets. - He learned from Ezra Pound to fear the romantic softness and to regard the poetic medium rather than the poetic personality . Modernism “Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results. The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into his meaning.” (The Metaphysical Poets: 1921) Stylistic characteristics: - Free indirect speech - Juxtaposition of characters - Allusions - Intertextuality - Satire - Irony - Symbolism - Discontinuous narrative - Paradoxes - Figures of speech The Waste Land - It was published in 1922 - It consists of 434 lines in 5 parts: 1- The Burial of the Dead 2- A Game of Chess 3- The Fire Sermon 4- Death by Water 5- What the Thunder Said - A detailed editorial comments are added to it Summary Stanza 1: - The poem begins with description of the seasons. - Then, moves from talking about nature to a personal experience. Stanza 2: - There is a dialogue between son of man and a divine power. - He tries to search for signs of life, but finds only broken images and dead trees. - He moves to another personal account, and the narrator becomes the hyacinth girl St