T.S.Eliot poem The Waste land

                                “ The West Land”

                    -       T.S.Eliot

"The Waste Land" by T.S.Eliot

       

              The waste land poem here ,  T.S.Eliot talk about the western culture. His  location  and  nation by the western culture. The waste land is a collection of five poem divided into different parts. All the poem is archetype way also a poem made of collage of images.

1)   The Burial Of The Dead

                         In the first part "The Burial Of The dead" T.S.Eliot talk about the myth of Sibyl(sibyl is a waiting for death). Myth of Tristan and Isolde and Hyacinth girl ( German opera, it is the flower name. The love and death connected in the myth).  At last T.S.Eliot talk about the Unreal City: London bridge, death undone, etc.....

"Something different from either,

Your shadow at morning striding behind you,

Or Your shadow at evening to meet you,

He will show you fear in a Handful Dust"

         T.S.Eliot talk about the Red Rock. Red Rock is symbol of christianity.here, I Put my view in single line

"I Will Shaw You , Who Are You in Right Now?"

                   The image of Madame Sosostris. She was a fashionable fortune teller. We can see in this image fond that the image of Christianity. The Christianity is connected with the city of London. London is the city of Christian. So I can connected the image of Madame Sosostris and city of London.

      2)  A Game Of Chess

             The second part of "A Game Of Chess". A poem this section focuses on two opposing scenes , one of high society and one of the lower classes.

     

 3)   The Fire Sermon

          The poem 'The Fire sermon' we can say that the poem Boredom was one of the problam of waste land. The title of the poem 'The fire sermon' the sermon given by Buddha in which he encourage his fallowers to give up earthly passion ( passion is symbolized by fire) and seek freedom fr earthly thing. Also we can see in this poem there are many references like Bank of River, bank of Canal, Fisherking ( fisherking also suffering from bodies pain), Tiresias, a figure from classical mythology who has both male and female features.

 

" Old man with wrinkled female breasts"

 

And is blind but can see into the feature.

"Burning burning burning burning

O lord thou pluckest me out

O lord thou pluckest burning"

 

          At last the section then comes to an abrupt end with a few line from St.Augustine's confessions and a vague references to the Buddha's fire sermon ( burning)

         The poem's next section which will relate the story pf a death without resurrection exposes the absurdity of these two figures faith in external higher power that this section ends with only the single word 'burning' isolated on the page, reveals the futility of all of man's struggles.

 

4) Death by Water

               The poem'Death by Water' it's creat a archytype image. The poem death by water describes a man phlebas the phoenician who has died apparently by droeining. In death he has forgotten his wordly cares as the creatures of the seen have picked his body apart.

             The narrator asks his reader too consideref phlebes and recall his or her own morality. At last we can say that the poem reflect the Tragic water world.

 

5) What the Thunder Said

              We can say that the poem what the thunder said says as taken from the UPNISHAD (hindu fables). The poem reflect the Sirrealistic image. The image of Cock. Cock symbolise something bright in our life. Here, alsoEliot implies a path to regenerate the denizens of the waste land E.g what the thunder said.

 

Datta- Give

Dayadhvam-Sympathise

Damayata-Self-Control

     Eliot bring togethere the wisdom of the east and west and shows that spiritual regeneration can come, if only we had the voice of the thunder.  

        The poem ends with a seies of disparate fragments from a children's song, from Dante and from Elizabethan drama leading up to a final chant of " Shantih Shantih Shantih" . The traditional ending to an Upnishad.