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Name: Baldaniya Vanita
Semester: 3
Roll No: 29
Class: M. A. Part 2
Paper: 9 The Modernist Literature
Work: Presentation
Topic: Universal Human lows in the Waste Land
Email. Id: [email protected]
Submitted by Smt. S. B. GardiMaharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.Department of English.
T. S. EliotThomas Stearns
Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), usually known as T. S. Eliot, was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
Waste Land
The decayed condition of the Civilization and a culture of living dead.
Sibyl- I want to die.
Past and future clash with each as yet unformed and
just beginning present
Past
Future
The oppressed with a sense of not being free, consequently, withdraws from the world of experience to the world of contemplation.
Marie in the mountains
In the mountains, there you feel free.
The spirit that animates handful of dust in the present, is decaying and sickened one.
It is the eternal ‘present’ of the human condition: ‘Fear of handful of dust’.
Fatal love and inevitable.Love mixed with death and rebirth.
love
Lust
Death
Death of GodThe crucifixion represents the mythological slaughter of God .
Meaninglessness of cultural values for example Christian culture.The death of
God render human life and human death meaningless.
Knowledge of what is needed is not the same as attaining what is necessary.
Our need are limited but what we required is endless.
Datta- Give- God.
Dayadhvan- Compassion- Humans.
Damyata- Self Control- Demous.
NostalgiaIt means
bittersweet longing for things, persons or situations of the past.
Memory and Desire.
Tiresias is nostalgic- Stetson,
divan.
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