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- The Burial of the Dead. April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain.
- A Game of Chess. The Chair she sat in, like a burnished thone, Glowed on the marble, where the glass. Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines. From which a golden Cupidon peeped out.
- The Fire Sermon. The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf. Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind. Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
- Death by Water. Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell. And the profit and loss. A current under sea.
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [A] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
- T. S. Eliot
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- 1922
- 1922
A dramatic monologue that changes speakers, locations, and times throughout, "The Waste Land" is a modernist masterpiece by T. S. Eliot. It presents the terror, futility, and alienation of modern life in the wake of World War I. The poem explores themes of memory, desire, death, and the uncanny through various literary, musical, historical, and popular cultural allusions.
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April is the cruellest month, breeding. Dull roots with spring rain. A little life with dried tubers. And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
Oct 12, 2022 · The Waste Land is a long and complex poem that explores the themes of alienation, fragmentation, and loss in the aftermath of World War I. It consists of five sections, each with a different tone, style, and allusion, reflecting the poet's vision of a desolate and chaotic world.
May 1, 1998 · Read or download the classic modernist poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot for free. This eBook is in the public domain in the USA and available in various formats.
This online exhibit, Better Craftsmen, Not Gods, is a critical examination of the development of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. One manuscript of the poem, as annotated by Ezra Pound and Vivienne Eliot prior to the poem’s 1922 debut publications in The Criterion and The Dial, was lost and later rediscovered and added to the New York Public ...