Waste Land Essay: Eliot's Use of Different Speakers
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Eliot's Use of Different Speakers in The Waste Land
Different speakers in "The Waste Land" mirror the disjointedness of modern experience by presenting different viewpoints that the reader is forced to put together for himself. This is similar to the disassociation in modern life in that life has ceased to be a unified whole: various aspects of 20th-century life -- various academic disciplines, theory and practice, Church and State, and Eliot's "disassociation of sensibilities," or separation of heart and mind -- have become separated from each other, and a person who lives in this time period is forced to shore these fragments against his or her ruins, to borrow Eliot's phrase, to see a picture of an integrated whole.
Different speakers not only present different viewpoints, but also mirror different aspects of the modern cultural experience. This not only presents a group of varying viewpoints, but also a sort of anthropological description of post-World War II Europe. For instance, Eliot gives a picture of the rootlessness experienced by many Europeans in line...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how eliot's use of different speakers mirrors the disjointedness of modern experience by presenting different viewpoints that the reader is forced to put together for himself.
- Analyzes how different speakers present different viewpoints and mirror different aspects of the modern cultural experience. eliot portrays the rootlessness experienced by many europeans in line 13.
- Analyzes how the emptiness of sexual experience in the modern world is represented through the use of multiple speakers in "the waste land."
- Analyzes how tiresias provides elliot with a central voice for the poem. his monologue includes the central line and occurs in the middle section, "the fire sermon."
- Analyzes how tiresias does not suggest how the waste land mentality and experience may be healed, but merely describes a passionless seduction.
- Cites abrams, m.h., et al. footnotes to "the waste land" in the norton anthology of english literature, sixth edition, volume 2.
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