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The Waste Land
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T. S. Eliot Influences: Charles Baudelaire Anti-romanticism Greek, Latin, German, French language George Santayana Dante Works: Philosophical and literary reviews First poem (1915) – The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock. First poetic collection (1917) – Prufrock and other observations. "The Waste Land" caused a sensation when it was published in 1922, in the middle of his creation. It is today the most widely translated and studied English-language poem of the twentieth century.The Waste Land
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I. The Burial of the Dead II. A Game of Chess III. The Fire Sermon IV. Death By Water V. What the Thunder Said
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Major Themes Death-Rebirth The Seasons Love Water History The Holy Grail War Mourning
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Structure-Style Sequence of scenes and images- no interruption Multiple perspectives Multiple settings Cubist The poem’s feeling is evident Distorted quotations Mythological-religious themes
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Plot-analysis “The Burial of the Dead”: a line in the Anglican burial service. Made up of four vignettes, each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker. 1 st section (1-18): Marie’s biographical snippet. Isolation of humanity. Cycle of seasons-death.
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2 nd section(l. 19-42): a prophetic, apocalyptic invitation to journey into a desert waste. Biblical tone (l. 19-30) Izekiel Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde(l. 31-42). Opera form
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3 rd episode: an imaginative tarot reading-some of the cards are not part of an actual tarot deck. Madame Sosostris Tarot cards -The “Holy Grail”.
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Tarot Cards
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4 th episode:the most surreal. A London populated by ghosts of the dead. “Inferno-like” city. Dante. Stetson. You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!”. Baudlaire
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