The Waste Land By. T. S. Eliot

1. The Waste Land By. T. S. Eliot Mr.Rajendra Tambile

2. “. . . A sociological stagnation of inauthentic lives and living that has settled upon us, and that evokes nothing of our spiritual life, our potentialities, or even our physical courage—until, of course, it gets us into one of its inhuman wars.” (Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth)

3. OUTLINE 1-T. S. Eliot 2-About the poem 3-The 4 main stories 8-The ending..

4. The Hollow Men Four Quartets Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 –1965) a poet, dramatist, and literary critic received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He’s an American poet moved to the UK and was a hard worker i.e. he didn't wait for inspiration to come but he looked for words and spent much efforts to write his poems. During his life, his wife became mad and that really touched him a lot thus he couldn't live a peaceful life so he decided to travel around the world and this journey was a source for this poem.. The Rock The Cocktail Party The Family Reunion

5. It is a revolutionary and an extraordinary modernist poem published in the 1922. Part I: The Burial of the Dead.Part II: A Game of Chess.Part III: The Fire Sermon.Part IV: Death by Water.Part V: What the Thunder Said.

6. First, before T. S. Eliot’s waste Land, there are 3 more waste lands..

7. King Oedipus He was born for a king and a queen A prophecy tells that he will kill his father and marry his mother.. As a result, his father gave him to a high point.. A servant tied him and let him wander alone.. A shepherd found him.. He told him the prophecy “destiny” He ran away meeting a caravan and killed his father.. 2 sins are committed accidently.. Many results and hard scarifies..

8. By the help of Tiresias, Oedipus solve this problem by plucking his eyes and practicing great remorse. The actual repentance comes after the removal of sin ‘’adultery murdering” Solution After committing sins.. Land became waste.. Men and women became potent.. Fruitlessness, uselessness, aimlessness and all “ness” are witnessed and they move down in the dump exactly as this circle in this slide.. Problem

9. Second, T. S. Eliot also derived the story of Fisher King and Arthur King“

10. Fisher King Fisher King is the one who made 15 lines and a circle.. “A Democratic city..” During wars, he managed to find the Holy Grail he kept in Chapel Arthur used the Grail to put wine on it, so it is a symbol of “fertility” Fisher brought it and assigned knights to guard it.. The guardians are drunk and the Holy Grail is stolen.. More than one sin are committed especially drinking and stealing Fisher sent15 knights to give the Grail back.. Fisher’s wife fills in love with the only knight that comes back.. So the bad consequences of this love Led to barren and sterile life

11. Third, T. S. Eliot also derived the story of Ezekiel

12. Ezekiel He is an Israeli prophet with 2 prophecies to the son of Israel “Son of man, stand upon thy feet and I will speak to thee, your alters shall be desolate, and your finaglers shall be broken, and I will cutdown your slain men before your idols” “Your land shall be waste and the grasshopper shall be burden and desire shall frail and dust shall remain on the land as it was” Why.. Because they worship idols Redemption occurs in the book of Isaiah “333”. It talks about the waste land saying that “Masiah will be a river in a dry land and the shadow of a great rock in a weary land”

13. Many sins like Adultery; Waste Lands Robbery; drinking wine; Polytheisms.. Therefore, our land needs salvation because of the overwhelming sins we live in but we are not ware of our sins or even our redemption.

14. Sybil.. The Thesis Statement In the Roman mythology, she asks Apollo to live as many years as grain of sands.. Her stupidity led her to forget asking about ‘’everlasting physical youth” Accordingly, she became ugly, old, and small like a finger in a bottle wishing to reach the 5-letter word, “DEATH”. Today, the western civilization is like Sybil. It will end up like her in a way that people will ask for death but 3 “NOs” will appear “NO rebirth.. NO death.. And No redemption”..

15. Sybil.. The Thesis Statement T. S. Eliot used on the top of his poem the following lines..“NAM SYBYLLAM quidemcumis ego ipse oculismeisvidi in ampullapendere,et cum illipueridicerent...For Isra pound.” Time will come when we dearly wish to die. No one can imagine how horrible life might be then to the extent that the most frequently desired wish is death. The mere thought of this gives me a violent shudder!

16. -Live in despair, and religion offers no hope.. World War I and the Spanish flu? • -Catastrophic events.. we are quite alone in a chaotic universe. • -Feeling fragmented and disconnected from the self, society, and nature, human beings believe that life is futile. • -Eliot’s purpose is to rehabilitate a discredited system of beliefs to help us cope with life’s unforeseen events. • -To accomplish this goal, Eliot takes us on a journey of the soul that will reveal meaning, truth, virtue, and the good life. From Chaos to Harmony

17. -It’s a mirror of the apparent meaninglessness of life. • -Cryptic and chaotic networks of references, the poem is an attempt to provide mankind with the way back to the Garden—the place of unity, of non-duality between male and female, good and evil, and God and man. • -Discovering these connections is by rising above the temporal (the here and now) and embracing the spiritual (the eternal). • -In the end, this poem is meant to provide optimism by presenting enduring spiritual truths to encourage the flowering of our humanity. From Chaos to Harmony

18. The great massage is to make civilization alive by having morals and beliefs.. If the vise versa is the goal, we will witness what we don’t want..

19. April is the curliest month In the first 7 lines, the speaker is not identified. But the most important thing is that the speaker dislikes spring because it brings active life and refreshes the memory of the person. It's a month that pushes people to think about past life and plans for future life as well.. Spring is a month of Rebirth and flourish; but that man is not in favor of it. He liked to be passive, he is just frozen. Strange.. Since life is also full of strange things.. Maybe, this is why the 1st part verses end almost in “ING” it's not the “ing” form but it is the present participle which is used to talk about the frozen moments.

20. The 4th part that talked about unreal city “London” where all people work just like robots automatically starting at 9 am and end at 5 pm. No meaning of life at all there but the concern is money.

21. -The waste land is an ever-present dimension of civilization. -We need to accept that all wars are one war, all battles are one battle, journeys, rivers, rooms, loves, and ultimately, all people are one person. -All of the specific examples of these things in the poem are representative of their kind. Principle of The Waste Land: Unity

22. -The poem is associated with the impulse to search, discover, and seek change for the sake of self-knowledge and of sharing the experience with others; • -It implies the awareness of humanbinaries—mortal and immortal, death and life, good and evil, male and female—and the struggle to integrate these antagonistic elements into a new whole: an authentic identity; • -It suggests an inward return to the divine source of life for the sake of living in harmony with the self as well as with nature and society.. “A Modern Hell”

23. -Protagonist/Fisher King finds the resolve to act rather than remain passive, to do more than just sit and fish. • -“Shall I at least get my lands in order?” • He utters a series of fragments in foreign languages, each suggesting a plan, endurance and renewal. • -Poem ends with the incantation “Shantihshantihshantih” • -The peace that passeth understanding is attainable through rebirth which can be attained only through death. Ending