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Critical
Evaluation of “The Waste land”
NAME
:HARIYANI KISHAN
ROLL NO
:17
BATCH
:2015'17
PAPER NO
:9 ( THE MODERNIST LITERATURE)
SUBMITTED
TO :DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH .M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
EMAIL ID :kishanhariyani1992@gmail.com
Critical
evaluation of “The Waste land”
Preface
' The
Wasteland' is a master piece of renowned English poet T.S. Eliot ,which
appeared on the scene of English Literature in1922 .it is the modern epic which
in its concentrated form takes in it reference
from ancient Roman and Greek mythologies and allusions to ancient Elizabethans,
Victorian and modern writers .it has influences of the anthropological works
such as; Ritual and Romance and The Golden Bough by Jessie.L.weston and James
.G.Frazer respectively .
In this
poem Eliot depicts his whole . In this work dead poets and ancestor assert
their immorality most vigorously
“The
Waste Land” contains five parts like
1. The
Burial of the Dead
2. A Game of
chess
3. The fire
sermon
4. Death by
water
5. What the
thunder said etc.
“The
Waste Land” is a multi-layered poem in which several things can be included to
study critically, they are given below
·
Title of the poem
·
Theme of the poem
·
Myth in the poem
·
Symbolism in the poem etc.
Now let’s
have a glance on these above indicated points in detail.
Title of
the poem:
T.S. Eliot
has spoken to his response as this poem entitled "The Waste Land". It
is a representative poem made in the style out of beautiful elusiveness,
"Formally" the image has been portrayed as a quite a bit of thoughts
and a graceful cryptogram. Accordingly it is the poem of myth and images of a
progression of trains of musings whose parts look detached with each other.
The title of the
lyric "The Waste Land" has been enlivened by Miss Dessie L. Weston's
book from Ritual to Romance. It alludes to a waste land depicted in one of the
Grail Romances. The Land was administered by the fisher King.
He
alongside his knights violated diminish ladies who were watchmen of the Grail
puzzles. In light of that shock, he get to be inept and fell sick, and his
property get to be squander materialistic world as the waste land, and its
ruler as the advanced materialistic man. He has befouled the riddles of life
and being, to be specific the spirit and turn out to be profoundly weak and has
gotten to be squander profoundly. In this manner, one might say that the title
of this poem "The Waste Land" is proper and extremely well picked by
Thomas Stern Eliot.
Themes of
the poem:
"The Waste
Land" has numerous topic and every one of these subjects have been
extremely all around expounded by T.S Eliot, who passes on these all subjects
through imagery and obviously with the assistance of different legendary
method, here in this ballad "The Waste land", T.S Eliot shows his
thoughts so it is particularly hard to comprehend this lyric at a first
perusing however an individual needs to peruse twice or thrice then and after
that he/she can get a handle on the focal thought of the poem.
Here are
several themes, which can be observed;
· Death
· Rebirth
· Love
· Lust
· Water
·
Spiritual degradation
So now
let’s discusses these themes in detail.
Death:
Death is
the significant subject of this lyric as two segments of this poem 'The Burial
of the dead' and 'demise by water' alludes or shows to this topic. What
entangles matters is that demise can mean life so as it were one jars say that
by passing on, a being can make ready for the new lives. Thusly the death is the
focal subject of this poem.
Spiritual
degradation:
T.S Eliot
has communicated what he felt about his territory in The Waste Land and how
individuals step by step lost confidence in God and otherworldly rot is the
primary topic of the lyric as in view of it just his property is squander
arrive. In present day society there is a rot and otherworldly decline at
whatever point the sexual capacity is avoided. So Spiritual Degradation can be
taken as the fundamental thought of this poem.
Rebirth:
Here
Rebirth can be a major theme which is found in this poem. The Christ images in
the poem, along with many other religious metaphors, causes rebirth and
resurrection as central theme of this poem.
Love:
Love is
the main theme of this poem. Here in the poem many references can be noticed
such as Tristan and Isodle in ‘Burial of the Dead’ and Cleopatra in a ‘Game of
Chess’ and to the story of Tereus and Philomela suggests that love in the waste
land is often destructive.
Lust:
Here T.S
Eliot has very well depicted the theme of lust through this poem. T.S Eliot
depicts the sin as something a akin to rape this chance sexual encounter
carries with it mythological beggage.The violated Philomela, the blind Tiresias
who lived for a time as a woman. Sexuality runs through the waste land taking
centre stage as a cause of calamity in the ‘The Fire Sermon’.
Water:
“The
waste land” lacks water and water also promises rebirth at the same time
however water can bring about Death. T.S Eliot sees the card of the drowned
Phoenician sailor and later titles the fourth section of this poem ‘Death By
water’ when the rain finally arrives at the close of the poem it does suggest
the cleansing of sin, the washing away of misdeeds and the start of a new
future, however with comes thunder and therefore perhaps lightening.
Myths in
the Waste Land:
There are
many myths which can be observed in this poem. T.S Eliot’s The waste land is an
important land mark in the history of English poetry and one of the most talked
poems of the same Age. Here T.S Eliot described the mythical background in his
poem. This mythical technique can be elaborated as given below.
·The
Grail Legend
· The
King Fisher
· Myth of
Tiresias
· Myth of
Vegetation and fertility etc.
Now let’s
illuminate these myths in detail.
The grail
Legend:
Here in this poem this myth
is envisioned as The Grail was the glass or plate utilized by Christ for his
last dinner, in that container the blood of the Savoir was accumulated when he
was executed. The Myth about this vessel was that at have gained restorative
and marvellous properties so the outcome is that it turned into a protest for
immaculateness or one sort of commitment and love. The spear used to pierce the
sides of Christ and kept with it. Be that as it may, a period the first Grail
was bafflingly vanished and a significant number of the striking Knights staked
their lives and them hunting down this vessel. It was for the most part trusted
that the vessel was now and then could be found in the sky as the gliding
saucer yet it could just observe by those, Knights who were virginal
magnificence.
King
Fisher:
As indicated by this
myth King Fisher was the ruler named King Fisher. It was one of the locales
where Grail adore had been long ago vogue, and a sanctuary Known as Chapel
Perilous, still remained there, broken and feeble, as a forlorn commemoration
of what once seemed to be, yet later had stopped to be. It was said that the
lost Grail was covered up in this house of prayer. Around then the ruler
himself had turned into a physical wreck, injured and feeble, thus. It was
whispered, of a transgression submitted by his soldiery in insulting the
modesty of a gathering of nuns joined to the Grail sanctuary.
The
impotency of the Fisher King was reflected sympathetically in the land of which
he was the head and ruler. It had become dry and barren, the haunt and home of
want and famine. The King, however, was waiting with hope, despite his illness,
that one day the Knight of the pure soul would visit his star-crossed kingdom,
march to the Chapel Perilous, answer questions and solve riddles.
Myth of
Tiresias:
Here in
this poem this myth often comes up to the end of this poem. Tiresias is
represented as a bi-sexual in The Waste Land as he was blind but he has the
gift of prophecy and immortality. Many stories are same like Tiresias story.
According to one story this wise Theban soothsayer in his youth once saw the
goddess Athena naked in a pond and goddess struck him blind but his mother was
a friend of hers so she bestowed upon him.
Symbolism:
Here in
this poem there are many symbols which can be elaborated in a separate essay
because here T.S Eliot has used several kinds of myths and collage of images
which causes some problem to understand this poem.
Water:
Here in
this poem Water a predominant symbol of birth, death and resurrection appears
through the poem as in the opening water signifies the giver of life. Yet it
also stands for death. “Fear death by water”, or those are pearls that were his
eyes. The symbolic meaning depends with a deceased Phoenician.
The
Fisher king :
So, here
Eliot shows the Fisher King as symbolic of humanity robbed of its sexuality
potency in the modern world and connected to the meaninglessness of urban
existence.
There are
other symbols like
·
Drought
·
Animals
·
Landscape
·
Thunder
·
Religion etc.
Conclusion:
In short
this poem The Waste Land is an extremely rich poem and it has numerous
understandings so we once in a while find such an assortment of images aside
from in T.S.Eliot's Wasteland. Living creatures, creature or creepy crawly have
been the critical image. Thusly, this lyric can be explained from different perspectives.
but it is difficult to comprehend on the grounds that so many topic ,myths and
philosophical significance comprise in this lyric so we can state it is one
sort of scrapes of poet which is reflected here as type of sonnet and Eliot
look forward of each field of individual so this commitment of T.S.Eliots' stay
important and motivational in The field of Modernist Literature
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