The Burial Of The Dead And A Game Of Hamlet

The world seemed to be against a person if the person depends highly on the world for its full regards or none. Modernist writers like T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams explained the deepness a human can feel when alive and/or dead, inside or outside. Eliot showed these deprivations in his famous poem, “The Waste Land,” specifically with “The Burial of the Dead” and “A Game of Chess.” Williams directly told his readers the abstracts of the world in its involvement in a person’s life, unlike Eliot. These two writers shared the memos of the modern people away from the dark past, which happened after the World War 1, to resolve the matter of emptiness and fullness. World War 1 occurred in the early 1900s as it led to a Great Depression

Williams shared the abstracts of the people as the days went by to show how people were acting after the war ended. Although both writers have their own ways of writing, both have the same path of visualizing the hopes they clutched from the civilians. T. S. Eliot and “The Waste Land” were difficult to understand as the poem spun around with different speakers in each section yet connected with the outcome hopes and desperation. The speakers in the first section, “The Burial of the Dead,” were various to distinguish; Marie and her cousin, Madame Sosostris, and two sailors. For Marie and her cousin, Eliot first explained about the season and its meaning for the entire poem. April as a month of spring is a beautiful month, yet Eliot said it is “the cruellest month” (1) since it had memories of unfulfilled desires. Ironically, spring is the birth of the life cycle and considers the warmth it weathers in the world. Marie and her cousin took their time to remember a memory that happened before as it took a little life out of them because it did not feel the same

There were two settings in this section, which the first setting had one speaker and the second setting had three speakers. In the first setting, Eliot described the place from the ceiling and walls to the ground. He referred to other writers with the descriptions like the “Shakespeherian Rag” (128). Eliot used this reference to show a split second of distraction while describing the place. These descriptions and the setting for this speaker was dark and lonely. The speaker was talking to herself, questioning for an attention from whomever she yearned. Then the next setting set at the bar, where two ladies sat down to drink and chat about Albert’s return. The ladies, one named Lil and the other one was Albert’s wife, talked about Albert and the relationship between his wife and him. This conversation reflected in the title of the section of chess. The queen must satisfy the king and protect her king in the game of chess. In Lil and Albert’s wife’s conversation, Albert’s wife had no confidence to satisfy him, and then Lil told her that if she cannot, then “others will” (149), while the bartender told them to hurry up and leave because it is near closing time. When Lil mentioned that other girls will, it referred to the pawns in the game of chess that can turn into a queen if made to the other side of the board game. Lil set an example of the emptiness