The Waste Land

Feb 10, 2021

The Waste Land - Eliot # Published in 1922, along with James Joyce’s Ullysses and Yeat’s The Second Coming, The Waste Land marks a distinct pivotal literary style. Paradoxically while its innovative features are new, it harkens to the past for its derivative meanings through echoes, allusion, quotation (in several languages), a variety of verse forms, and a collage of poetic fragments. Initially it appears an incomprehensible cacophonic melange of voices, pastiche of images, discordant threads or motifs like other works of art of his time. ...