LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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An avalanche
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Rapids
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The west wind
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Thunder
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Detailed explanation-1: -This sterility is supposedly a punishment for a crime which took place at the king’s court. Eliot’s use of symbolism derived from this legend implies that the modern world is similarly barren and empty, and everything has lots its deeper spiritual meaning.
Detailed explanation-2: -This is the modern world: civilisation has been reduced to a ‘waste land’ and the land has lost its fertility and ability to bring forth life. Even the living seem to be suffering from some kind of spiritual wound.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thunder plays an important role in this section. In the beginning, the thunder was accompanied by lightening, with the “damp gust bringing rain”. And finally, the thunder heralds the divine message-God delivering His message to three groups of followers-– men, demons, and the gods.
Detailed explanation-4: -In his first note to the poem he attributes the title to Jessie Weston’s book on the Grail legend, From Ritual to Romance. The allusion is to the wounding of the Fisher King and the subsequent sterility of his lands; to restore the King and make his lands fertile again, the Grail questor must ask, “What ails you?"