Literary Analysis Of The Wasteland

Literary Analysis
A poem in fragments is the manner in which author T.S. Eliot describes his remarkable work The Waste Land. The Waste Land is esteemed as a modernist text for that it is labor intensive pushing past the previous genres, leaving behind the democracy and wistfulness of Whitman and Realism 's weight on reality and realness with innovative thoughts of money, intimacy, intellect, industry and individualism. The Wasteland contains five spasmodic divisions designed each in separate sections combining multiple voices, literary characters, historical allusions, quotations and glimpses into contemporary life through absurd images, myths, and legends. The reader becomes lost in a maze of past literature swarming into a piece of its own.

He adds to his element of fragments by pulling languages one after another yet seamlessly pushing them into one another. Eliot transitions from English to German in a rather poetic way that takes notice of the tongue change while maintaining a certain structure “And drank coffee, and talked for an hour./Bin gar kein Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen” (Eliot “The Waste Land” 11-12). This is one of the many smooth yet noticeable transitions out of English putting an effect on the reader. At times Eliot moves past human language in examples of a rooftop cock singing “Co co rico co co rico”(Eliot “The Waste Land” 393) or the peal of bells “Weialala leia/Wallala leialala” (Eliot “The Waste Land” 290-291). These may not be traditionally recognized languages, but they contribute to the fragmentation bringing together people of different languages while including animals and thing with each itself on specific language. Foreign languages are used from beginning to end starting with the quotation from Petronius’s Satyricon shifting in and out of six different

Eliot begins with the title to scrutinize his society. The Waste Land describes the post-war life, ranging from the people on the streets blind to the massacre that had to take place to the vast amount of bloodshed. According to the world 's governments, European civilization needed war, cruel, destructive war, to save herself, but from what. This intense demand for murder began to question the citizens of the world; many wondered what kind of culture could allow such carnage under its nose let alone in its name. The title The Waste Land grabbed accurately the state of Culture dis-unification and Society 's apathy after World War 1 the war. Elliott used the poem as an indirect confession of societal discord for which he sat resolution in social orders beyond those of poetry. The long fragmented structure of The Wasteland carried so many reforms to ideas of what poetry was and how it worked fundamentally changes his generation of poetry. The poem asks whether one can rationally form a coherent structure from the splinters of