Five parts of The Waste Land

    

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 Five parts of The Waste Land

Introduction :- 

The Waste Land in by T.S.Eliot one in Born . 26 

 September ,1888 the Waste Land modernist poetry 

poem devided into five parts .He was an essayist 

publisher playwright ,literary and social critic and " 

one of the twentieth century's major poets" Eliot 

employs many literary and cultural allusious from 

the  westen canon ,Buddhism and the Hindu 

Upanishads. Because of this critics and scholars 

ragard the poem as obscure.

 
*His first book of poems prifrock and other 

obsewation was published in 1917 and immediately 

established him as a leading poet of the avant garde. 

As a poet, he fransmuted his affinity for the English 

metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century 

 T.S.Eliot received the Nobel prize for literature in 

1948 .He died in London on January 04.1965. T.S 

Eliot represent the city. life people living style Eliot 

use complex language and also use mythical 

technique in the ," The waste Land "

 

*The Waste Land it's a epic poem. A poem made of 

college of images in the waste Land image and 

symbol take in city .Tiresias the protagonist then 

meets one of his acquaintance Stetson .he had mrt 

him first any mylae he symbolizes humanity . Thus 

the section states the general theme of the waste 

Land . it is degradation of life in modern world the 

poem is full allusions.

* Made up of Four vignettes:-

        1) Aristocratic Woman

        2) A prophetic

        3) Madam Sasostis

        4) Speaker Walks  through

             a   Landon

1) Aristocratia Woman

                                                                                 " I read much of the night and go south in winter....." 

( landscape scenes)

2) A prophetic :-

* landscape scenes ( deserted place rocks..etc..)
*
*Threatening prophetic tone.
* 
Hyacinth girl.

3) Madam sasostris:-

* tarot reader ... hanged man .
 

* " Reading .....not part of an actual tarot deck...."

4) Speaker Walks through a  landon :-

* populated by the ghost of the dead.
 

* Unreal city.
 

* Stetson.

- Poem divided in five parts five 


parts lits this..

 
Five parts of The waste Land



1 ) The Burial of the dead
 

2) A Game of Chess
 
3) The fire sermon
 
4) Death by water
 
5) What the taunder said .

1) The Burial of the dead :-


 

* The first section of The Waste Land takes its title 

from a line in the Anglican burial service. it is made 

up from vignettes ,each seemingly from the 

perspective of a different speaker.

* The second section is a prophetic ,apocalyptic 

invitation to journey into a desert waste where the 

speaker will show the reader " something" different 

from either The third episode in this section describe 

an imagination tarot reading, in which some of the 

cards Eliot includes in reading are not part of an 

actual tarot deck.

*Landscape sense: 

 

April winter , spring shower.....Mari in the

mountains offer coffee he .

* Landscape scene:-

deserted place rocks,ho water, facr in handful of 

dust ,heap of broken image. Hyacinth girl by in nu 

by Isolde .madam sosostris tarot hanged man 

drowned sailor.

* The final episode of the section is the most surreal. 

the episode concludes with a famous line from the 

preface to Baudelaire's Fleurs accusing the reader of 

sharing in the poet's sins.

 

This section of the waste Land can be as a modified 

dramatic monologue the speaker in this section are 

frantic in their need to speak to find an audience. 

these are meant to reference but also rework the 

literary.

The waste Land takes on the degraded mess that 


Eliot considered modern culture to constitute , 

particularly after the first world war had ravaged 

Europe. A sign of the pessimism with which Eliot 

approaches his subject is the poem 's epigraph 

,taken from the Satyricon, in which the sibyl looks 

at   the future and proclaim that she only wants to 

die. The second episode contains a troubled religious 

proposition. the speaker describes a true wasteland 

of " stony rubbish" in it he says ,man can recognize 

only heap of broken image .

 
The third episode explores Eliot's fascination with 

transformation .the tarot reader madame sosostris 

conducts the most outrageous from of " reading" 

possible, transforming a series of vague symbols into 

predictions many of which will come thru in 

successding sections of the poem.

The Waste Land Section 2 : A Game 

of Chess":- 
 

Carvings of Nightingale myth of phiomela barbarous 

king terues .dialogue monoloue between two person 

without identity you know nothing ? Do you see 

nothing? Do you reembe nothing ? Are you alive , or 

not Is there nothing in your head .
 

scene in coffee shop Lil husband Albert .


" And we shall play a game of chess pressing lidles 

eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door."

 
This section takes its title from two plays by the 

early 17th century playwright Thomas Middleton in 

one of which the moves in a game of chess denote 

stages in a seductive. This section focuses on two 

opposing scenes ,one of high society and one of the 

lower classes.

The first half of the section portrays a wealthy, 

highly groomed woman surrounded by exquisite 

furnishings. As she

3) The Fire Sermon.:-


 

To Carthage than I came. Burning burning burning 

burning
 


* Lord Thous pluckest me out
 
* Lord Thou pluckest
 

longest section of the poem .taken from a sermon 

.contract to the " sweet Thames " of Spencer' s time 

.Tiresias last section of the poem death without 


resurrection .

The title of this, the longest section of The Waste Land, is taken from a sermon given by Buddha in which he encourages his followers to give up earthly passion (symbolized by fire) and seek freedom from earthly things. A turn away from the earthly does indeed take place in this section, as a series of increasingly debased sexual encounters concludes with a river-song and a religious incantation. The section opens with a desolate riverside scene: Rats and garbage surround the speaker, who is fishing and “musing on the king my brother’s wreck.” The river-song begins in this section, with the refrain from Spenser’s Prothalamion: “Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song.” A snippet from a vulgar soldier’s ballad follows, then a reference back to Philomela (see the previous section). The speaker is then propositioned by Mr. Eugenides, the one-eyed merchant of Madame Sosostris’s tarot pack. Eugenides invites the speaker to go with him to a hotel

4 ) Death by Water .



 







 
phlebas the Phoenician .A current under sea picked 

his bones in whispers As he rose and fell he passed 

the stages of his age and youths entering the 

whirlpool.

Gentle or Jew oyou who turn the wheel and look to 


windward consider phlebas tall as you sohrtes 

section of the poem 10 line stanza ,ideas of 

regeneration.


 " phlebas the Phoenician a fortnight 

dead forgot the cry of gulls and the deep sea swell 

and the profit and loss".
 
 

*” phlebas the Phoenician " is the one who s been 

killed by water . dead for two weeks or a " froth 

night" .phebas just dies - stetson phlebas body yield 

phlebas - " drowned sailor" from madam sosostri's 

tarot pack.

phlebas the Phoenician .A current under sea picked 

his bones in whispers As he rose and fell he passed 

the stages of his age and youths entering the 

whirlpool.
 



Gentle or Jew oyou who turn the wheel and look to 


windward consider phlebas tall as you

5) What the thunder said :-


 



 After the death of Christ but before his rebirth on 

Easter Sunday. The theme of dry land with no water ....

Images : scene of Ganges River -" was sunken " 

series of disparteThe final section of The Waste Land 

is dramatic in both its imagery and its events. The 

first half of the section builds to an apocalyptic 

climax, as suffering people become “hooded hordes 

swarming” and the “unreal” cities of Jerusalem, 

Athens, Alexandria, Vienna, and London are 

destroyed, rebuilt, and destroyed again. A decaying 

chapel is described, which suggests the chapel in the 

legend of the Holy Grail. Atop the chapel, a cock 

crows, and the rains come, relieving the drought and 

bringing life back to the land. Curiously, no heroic 

figure has appeared to claim the Grail; the renewal 

has come seemingly at random, gratuitously. 

traditional ending ..." Shantih shantih shantih ...." 


The waste Land.....

Conclusion:-

In short the waste land at every angle reflected as a modern poem. Poem is feather on the hat of modern literature and also of modern people. But the poem has its own pros and cons. Pros in the sense it is gave the direction to the people. And cons in the sense that poem first announced as a depersonalizing of the poet but later on the secret was revealed that poem is totally depends on poet’s own experiences. Poet and his personal life fully reflected in the poem. Though it’s not the life of only T.S.Eliot instead of that it is reflected all the life of modern people.

Reference

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/eliot/section6.rhtml,http://www.slideshare.net/dilipbarad/the-waste-land-by-ts-eliot

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