LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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The Wasteland
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The Hollow men
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East Coker
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Prufrock
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Detailed explanation-1: -April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers.
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.” Thus begins one of the most important pieces of modern poetry ever written: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
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: -April is the cruelest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering. Earth in forgetful snow, feeding. A little life with dried tubers.-T.S. Eliot, The Burial of the Dead, The Waste Land, 1922. More items •10-May-2020