By G. Atkins
Right here, G. Douglas Atkins bargains a clean new studying of the earlier century's most famed poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). utilizing a comparatist procedure that's either intra-textual and inter-textual, this ebook is a daring research of satire of contemporary different types of false impression.
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What tomorrow? What ever do? ” The speaking voice as that of a character comes through clearest in “What the Thunder Said,” the critical last section of The Waste Land. 12 The point of that journey is ultimately a change in perspective on the part of the “hero,” who begins, certainly Odysseus does, as a rash, impercipient, egotistical figure and who must undergo a sequence of trials that will change him. 1057/9781137364692 Hints and Guesses in The Waste Land his “education” as he tests others.
The repetitions are clumsy at best, “sound” is general and vague, and the claim that we assume we are “substantial flesh and blood” feels odd coming after the first two verses in the stanza, leading me to think that we are being made into self-devourers, cannibals, in fact. ” With the dove “breaking the air” and engaging in discharge, a reader is inclined to think of the flesh-and-blood human breaking wind and moving his bowels. That is extreme, I realize, . . and yet . . Still, I will not press the matter.
Interestingly, we then shift to the New Testament scene on the road to Emmaus, identified by Eliot himself in the notes. The juxtaposition is highly suggestive, positive possibility contrasted with near-hopelessness, both “scenes” built precisely on the character of perception. More on this scene in a moment; for now I wish to stay with our speaker. ” We are suddenly outside and beyond the scene, never to return. S. ” Taken literally, the two paragraphs together, juxtaposed and read in comparison, mean that rain, just brought to the waste land, leads to the Hindu understanding: the suggestion is that water stands for that (foreign) perspective.
