ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Waste Land, a long poem by the American writer T S Eliot, is one of the most famous works of literary modernism.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Manuscript of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land, with Ezra Pound’s annotations. The manuscript draft of The Waste Land features the poem’s original title, ‘He Do the Police in Different Voices’. T S Eliot drew the quotation from Charles Dickens’s novel, Our Mutual Friend (1864).

Detailed explanation-4: -The one speaker who seems capable of inhabiting all these speakers, though, is the blind prophet Tiresias, whom Eliot called “the most important personage in the poem.” Since he is a prophet or “seer, ” Tiresias is able to guide us through any scene that is happening at any point in history, anywhere in the world.