Five parts of waste land Poem

Five Parts of Waste Land

Hitesh Galthariya

Roll No :- 08 M.A. Sem :- 3 Year :- 2015-16

Paper :- 09 The Modernist Literature

Submitted to :-Smt.S.B. Gardi

Department of EnglishM.K.Bhav.University

Introduction

Thomas Steams Eliot was born in St.Louis, Missouri, on September 26,1888. His First book of poems, Prufrock and other observation, was published in 1917, and immediately established him as a leading poet of the avant-garde.

As a poet, he transmuted his affinity for the English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century.

His poem in many respects articulated the disillusionment of a younger post-world war 1 generation with the convention both literary and social of the Victorian ear. T.S. Eliot received the Nobel prize for literature in 1948. He died in London on January 04,1965.

The Waste land it’s a epic poem. A poem made of collage of images. In ‘The Waste land’ Image and symbol take in city life.

T. S Eliot represent the city life people living style. Eliot use complex language and also use mythical technique in the ‘The Waste Land’. Poem divided in five parts. Five parts like this :

Five parts of Waste Land

The Burial of the Dead

A Game Of Chess

The Fire Sermon

Death By Water

What the thunder Said

The Burial of the DeadThe first part of the poem the poem is

‘The Burial of the Dead.’ The poem’s speaker talk about how spring is an a Horrible time of year stirring up memories of a bygone days and unfulfilled desires. The first part The Burial of the dead stars with this line :

April is the cruellest month breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain……..

In this lines unknown speaker claims that April is thecruelest month, even though we might usually thinking ofspring as a time of love. This section title from a line in theAnglican burial service. These recollection from Wagner’soperatic version of Tristan and Isolate an Arthurian take ofadultery and loss.

A Game of Chess

This section takes its title from two plays by the early 17th century playwright Thomas Middleton, in one of which the move in a game of chess denote stages in seduction.

This part start with like this lines:The chair she sat in, like a burnished

throne,Glowed in the marble, where the glass,Held up by standardats wrought with

fruitedvines…….

This part opens with a description of a woman sitting inside areally expensive room. Eliot vividly paints a picture of someone

sitting on the bank of the famous Thames river in Landon.

Although Eliot is able to produce starting beautiful poetry from the rough speech of the women in bar he nevertheless present their conversation as reason for pessimism.

The Fire SermonThe title of this, the longest section of the poem .This part startwith like this lines:

‘The river’s tent is broken: the lastfingers of leaf.Clutch and sink into the wet bank, the wind.Crosses the branch land, unheardthe nymphs are departed.’……

This 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 Fire Sermon however, also includes bits of many musical pieces, including Spenser’s wedding song, a soldier’s ballad a nightingale’s chirps, a song

from Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wake filed, and a mandolin tune.

Death by WaterThis part is shortest of section in the poem. This

partdescribes a man, Phlebas the Phoenician who

has died,apparently by drowning. This part start like lines

‘Phelbas the Phoenician a fortnight dead,Forget the cry of gulls, and the deep seaswellAnd the profit and loss………’

This lines tells us that some guy named Phlebas thePhoenician is the one who’s been killed by water. He’s beendead for two weeks, or a fortnight.

What the thunder saidThe final section of the poem opening is

takenfrom the crucifixion of Christ.This section

start like this lines:

‘After the torchlight red on sweaty facesAfter the frosty silence in the gardens ,After the agony in stony placesThe shouting and the crying’……..

These lines in particular refer to the moment that has come after death of Christ, but before his rebirth on Easter Sunday. The scene then shifts to the Ganges, half a world away from Europe, where thunder rumbles.

In this poem Thunder Speak this three words :-

DATTADAYADHVAMDAMYATA

According to these fables, the thunder “gives “, “sympathizes” and“controls” through out’s “speech”. Eliot launches into a meditation oneach of these aspects of the thunder’s power.

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