Name: Goswami Gayatri M.Roll no:8M.A. Sem. 3Paper no: 9 The Modernist LiteratureYear:2014-15PG Enrolment no: PG13101011Email ID: gayatrigoswami19@gmail.com Submitted to: Department Of English Smt. S. B. Gardi M. K. Bhavnagar University

Topic : What the Thunder Said

Dt.: 1/10/2014

Introduction of the Waste Land:• T. S . Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” divided into five sections

1. ‘Burial of the death’2. ‘ A Game of chess’3. ‘ The Fire sermon’4. ‘ Death by Water’5. ‘ What the thunder said’

• Eliot’s poem loosely follows the legend of ‘Holly Grail’ and the ‘fisher king’ combined with vignettes of the contemporary British society

Analysis of the “What the Thunder Said”:

• The title ‘What the Thunder Said ‘ Refers to the teachings of the divine and thunder god ‘prajapti’ which according to Indian religious book ‘Upanishads’ pointed out three ways to salvation

• Here Eliot makes a final attempt of leading wastelander to the spiritual redemption

• Eliot's elludes pointedly to the “Lotus” a symbol of the ultimate reality in Hindu and Buddhist though

• The last poem of the Waste Lands reveals four scenes.

• The first is that of Gethsemane when Jesus Christ was captured in the dead of night.

• In this poem Thunder speak this three words : ‘DATTA’ ‘ DAYADHVAM’ ‘ DAMYATA’

• Jesus' death was marked by an earthquake and violent thunder.

• In this poem Merging it is a scene similar to the search for the Holy Grail, with vile, haunting images of towers and broken cities.

• ‘DATTA’ is the first instruction by given Thunder .

This Garden of Gethsemane

‘DAYADHVAM’ means ‘Sympathize’ :

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• Here Eliot presents on his view , sympathy and care for the character he has created and wishes that the reader will see them as each starving to free them selves from their hopeless existence and so inevitably end up hurting others

“DAMYATA”• “DAMYATA” is the last word the Thunder gives

• “DAMYATA” means control

• Here Eliot says particular parson • The tone is less depressing, but is melancholy

•He makes a comparison of the sea to an expert sails-man, the sea would always be calm because the boat is easily controlled.

• In the poem the last stanza of the present the Fisher King sitting at the bank

• His kingdom is in disarray as the ‘arid plain’ behind him and the falling London Bridge alert the reader

• Realizing that his kingdom is at an end, the Fisher King, having gone mad, uses the broken things he has kept to save himself

• followed by the incantation ‘shantih shantih shantih’, which is an acknowledgement of blessing or salvation

• Eliot leaves us with a hint of peace and kindness that may be found

What the Thunder Said T.S. Eliot.mp4

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