LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Some academic scholars suggest that “The Wasteland” is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail.
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“The Wasteland” is an excellent example of modernist symbolism.
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Eliot’s poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world.
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“The Wasteland” is often used as an excellent example of poetic realism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is characterized by fragmentation, discontinuity, and disjunction-quality descriptive of modern society. In this entire poem we can see all the characteristics which are given above and describe as a very difficult and modern epic.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Waste Land is also characteristic of modernist poetry in that it contains both lyric and epic elements. Modernism continued the tendency, begun in romanticism, to prize lyric highly, but many modernist poets also sought to write in the traditionally highest form, epic.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock carries the characteristics of modernist poetry such as objective correlative, fragmentation, free verse and irregular rhyming. It suggests a direct break with English romantic poets such as Coleridge and Wordsworth (Levis 75).
Detailed explanation-4: -TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, which has come to be identified as the representative poem of the Modernist canon, indicates the pervasive sense of disillusionment about the current state of affairs in the modern society, especially post World War Europe, manifesting itself symbolically through the Holy.