The title is sometimes mistakenly written as “The Wasteland”. Among its famous phrases are “April is the cruelest month” (its first line) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” and “Shantih shantih shantih” (its last line). Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem-its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures-the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Louis, Missouri, U.S.died January 4, 1965, London, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot gives a vivid description of the ravages caused by the First World War. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. The poem truly depicts life in London in the aftermath of the First World War. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Eliot: Introduction Cleanth Brooks describes The Waste Land as a ‘highly condensed epic of the modern age’. The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. Its style and content both reflect the literary movement of. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Waste Land Eliot is one of the touchstones of modern poetry it may even be the most widely-known modern poem.
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