FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Oedipus
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Grail Legend of Fisher King
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Philomela
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Sysyphus
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Eliot’s notes to “The Waste Land, ” he alludes to several significant catalogues of myth: the Bible, Dante’s Inferno, Virgil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mythical method has given a circular shape to the poem. These mythical references have been connected with the modern wasteland which is the result of sex perversion, frustration, spiritual death and materialistic pursuits among the people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” was published in 1922 and depicts the devastation and despair brought on by World War I, in which he lost one of his close friends. According to the poet Ezra Pound, the poem represents the collapse of Western civilization.
Detailed explanation-4: -The vegetation and fertility Myth Winter is the season of death while spring is the season of rebirth. Eliot uses this vegetation to make the pattern of death and rebirth that is continued in the Christian myth until the crucifixion of Christ and his resurrection.