ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Waste Land can be viewed as a poem about brokenness and loss, and Eliot’s numerous allusions to the First World War suggest that the war played a significant part in bringing about this social, psychological, and emotional collapse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Being 434-lines long, The Waste Land’s length alone classifies it as an epic poem. The five-part modernist saga does not have a distinct storyline but can also be categorized as a narrative. Literary epic poetry is defined as a long memory about men and women and events that explain the morals of a society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eliot had the idea for the poem in 1914, but a breakdown brought on by his father’s death in 1919 precipitated its completion, and it has largely been read as a comment on the bleakness of post-war European history.

Detailed explanation-4: -He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).