Essays on The Waste Land

Introduction In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot strongly criticizes western culture after World War 1 as superficial, disordered, and immoral. He longs for a return to a time when people lost themselves in the study of language and classic literature instead of slaughtering each other…

In “A Game of Chess”, Eliot uses female sexuality to explore the post-war effects on society, and to communicate the physical desolation wrought on both men and women and the general sense of despair that blanketed the war-torn civilisation by looking into the state and…

Many critics see Eliot’s “desert” as a shape of social grievance, exposing the alternating boredom and terror inherent in modern-day day lifestyles. whilst these subjects do recur in the course of the capability of the poem, an extended subtlety of that ability arises with Eliot’s…

In an effort to reestablish the tradition of the “intellectual poet” (“Metaphysical”), T. S. Eliot and the members of the imagist and early modernist schools employ a rather direct method: allusions to classic works of poetry. By incorporating references to texts that exemplify the “chaotic,…

Introduction In addition to being a famous poet, T.S Eliot was also a social critic. Eliot used one of his most famous poems, “The Waste Land,” as a medium to critique western culture. Throughout his poem, Eliot illustrates the decline of western culture, which spurred…

Introduction Eliot’s The Waste Land is not a typical war poem. It does not offer the same simplicity and accessibility of wartime poets, and it does not necessarily offer the same view of themes and virtues of war poems, such as faith, duty, patriotism, and…

The Wasteland by T. S Eliot is a significant work of English poetry, published in 1922. The poem is regarded as the epic of the modern age. It’s a long ballad consist of four hundred forty lines in 5 parts. The poem depicts modern crisis…

Detachment in terms of societies emotions from reality as manifested in the disconnect between sex and marriage and a different kind of disconnect between the London of the past and the London as represented in the poem. Rough thesis: Through the shifting allusions and unidentified…