LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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W.B. Yeats
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T.S. Eliot
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Frost
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Auden
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Detailed explanation-1: -“April is the cruellest month.” Thus begins one of the most important pieces of modern poetry ever written: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Detailed explanation-2: -So why is April the cruelest month in the Waste Land? Because, in the non-Wasteland, it is a time of fecundity and renewal. It is (in the latitudes that Eliot knew) when the snow melts, the flowers start to grow again, and people plant their crops and look forward to a harvest.
Detailed explanation-3: -April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Detailed explanation-4: -"April is the cruellest month . . .” begins the first line of The Waste Land, the signature modernist poem by T. S. Eliot.
Detailed explanation-5: -Eliot, March, and Not April Is the Cruelest Month. MARCH 11, 1918 The great Spanish-flu pandemic is first reported in Kansas; it will eventually kill more than 20 million worldwide.