Name : Solanki Pratiksha M.Roll No : 21 ( 2014-2015 )

Enrolment no. PG13101032 Paper : 9. The Modernist Literature

Sem : 3. (2014-2015)Subject : Five Parts Of The waste

LandSubmitted to :

Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English

M.K.Bhavnagar University pratikshasolanki068@gmail.com

T.S.Eliot

" One of The Twentieth Century's Major Poet " Born : 26 September, 1888. Died : 4 January 1965 Award.. Nobel Price In Literature

The Waste Land

Modernist Poetry Poem devided into five Parts.

1. The Burial of The Dead2. A Game of Chess3. The Fire Sermon4. Death by Water5. What the Thunder Said

The Burial Of The Dead

Made up of Four Vignettes.

1) Aristocratic Woman " I read, much of the night, and

go south in the 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 London.. Populated By The Ghost of The

dead Unreal city Stetson

A Game Of Chess

High Society and the lower class..

NightingaleMyth of PhilomelaThis final repetition of "good

night" is also a reference to Ophelia..

The two women of this section..Dialogue between two person..

The Fire Sermon

Longest Section of the poem.Taken from a sermon.Contrast to the " Sweet

Thames " of Spencer's time..Tiresias.Last section of the poem :

Death without resurrection. Burning burning burning

burning 

Death by Water

Shortest section of the poem.10 line stanzas.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 "fortnight".

Phlebas just dies - Stetson.Phlebas body yield.Phlebas - "drowned sailor". from Madame Sosostris's tarot

pack

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 : sense of unfulfilled .. no

hope The scene of Ganges River - "was

sunken.."Series of disparte.. Traditional ending.. " Shantih Shantih Shantih.." The Wasteland..