Thinking Activity: "The Waste Land" By T.S.Eliot

 "The Waste Land" is a poem by T.S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most alternating narrations, in which vignettes of several characters address those themes experientially. It was published in 1922. It is very complicated poem to read and understand. Eliot has take many references, characters,  languages, scenes and images. Eliot has done use of enjambment.

The Poem is devided into Five Parts:

1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A game of chess
3. The fire sermon
4. Death by water
5. What the Thunder said.

All parts are disjointed. In this poem we can see the effect of World war -1, Globalization and Industialization. When poem published, that time critics didn't liked this poem. But I.A. Richard praises this poem. A very good things about this poem is that we can't understand when one matter was complete and another starts and when it go from one character to other and literature called it ' Enjambment '.


1) What are your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land'? Do you think that Eliot is as compared to Nietzche's views? or Has Eliot achieved universality of thought by recalling mytho-historical answer to the contemporary malaise?

Ans :- yes, I agree that Eliot can compared to Nietzche 's views, and Eliot has a historical sense and he try to deal with universal problem of the world with religious way. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.Nietzche was a scholar and good in various kind of fields and he gives solutions of the problem.


     2.  Prior to the speech, Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy made these remarks:

T.S. Eliot and S. Freud
What are your views regarding these comments? Is it true that giving free vent to the repressed 'primitive instinct' lead us to happy and satisfied life? or do you agree with Eliot's view that 'salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural trad. ition'?

Ans :- According to me, maybe it is true that t giving free vent to the repressed 'primitive instinct' lead us to happy and satisfied life. Because all human beings have their own desire and happiness. It is natural that they fullfil their desire and wish. They can't suppressed from their desire. And I am not agree with Eliot's view that 'salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural traition '. Because the spiritual and traditional people like saint they also fulfill their desire on hidden way, and it is a Eliot's point of view we can interpret it. Cultural tradition not control the human disaster or humanbeing.

3) Write about allusions to the Indian thoughts in 'The Waste Land'. (Where, How and Why are the Indian thoughts referred?)
Ans :- Here I found some Indian thought in ' The Waste Land';   in  part no ; 3 The fire sermon  its title which Eliot has taken it from Buddha's. It connected with Buddha. And then Then spoke the thunder
DA
Datta means to give: not only charity but giving oneself for some novel cause
  DA
Dayadhvam means sympathise – empathise yourself with the sorrows and suffering of others

DA
Damyata means Self Control, control over one’s
passions and desires

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih

So eliot has taken reference from many languages and from many writer and culture. So it is a mixture of all this thing. Here eliot try to connected this all things and also try to deal with universal idea of world.

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