The Waste Land (Wisehouse Classics - Original Authoritative Edition)
By T. S. Eliot
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Eliot’s poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. Because of this, critics and scholars regard the poem as obscure. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.
The poem’s structure is divided into five sections. The first section, The Burial of the Dead, introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair. The second, A Game of Chess, employs vignettes of several characters—alternating narrations—that address those themes experientially. The Fire Sermon, the third section, offers a philosophical meditation in relation to the imagery of death and views of self-denial in juxtaposition influenced by Augustine of Hippo and eastern religions. After a fourth section that includes a brief lyrical petition, the culminating fifth section, What the Thunder Said, concludes with an image of judgment.
T. S. Eliot
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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The Waste Land (Wisehouse Classics - Original Authoritative Edition) - T. S. Eliot
THE WASTE LAND
THE WASTE LAND
by
T. S. Eliot
W
Wisehouse Classics
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Executive Editor
Sam Vaseghi
Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-190-9
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"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: άποθανεĩν θέλω."
For Ezra Pound
il miglior fabbro
Contents
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
II. A GAME OF CHESS
III. THE FIRE SERMON
IV. DEATH BY WATER
V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID