ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote ‘The Waste Land’?
A
W.B. Yeats
B
T.S. Eliot
C
E.M. Forster
D
H.G. Wells 3
Explanation: 

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: -The Waste Land, long poem by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922, first in London in The Criterion (October), next in New York City in The Dial (November), and finally in book form, with footnotes by Eliot.

Detailed explanation-4: -TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land in this Margate shelter.

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