Title: Wasteland

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Date: 22.05.25

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• “The Wasteland” 1922
• A modernist manifest
• He accused to be an elitist by many
• dry wit
• major topics are, loneliness and alienation of the modern man
• the barrennes and sterility in the human relationships
• Advocate of objectivity and impersonal poetry that is against the Romantic “I” and against the Victorian as associated to middle class
• He bemoans that there is a lack of tradition and myth, and poetry lost it
• Paradoxical as they were against the tradition
• Founder The School of New criticism, structuralism of sasurre.
• Williams disliked Ts eliot
• “Tradition and the individual talent”
• He is also a critic, poet and playwright
• New Tradition of making new poetry “the objective correlative” which the critics described as “set of concrete objects”
• Prufrock*
• Allusions, and fragmentation
• Fragmentation of everything is the right sentence to describe Modernist poetry
• Fragmented barren exhausted world
• Father of modernism but paradoxical, establishing a school of criticism, early life of his are lost? later career and becomes Catholic
• intertextuality of texts
• 4 quartets and he found his logos in Catholic faith because they find protestanism middle class
• last section The little gidding
• Why he is paradoxical might be an exam question=?
• incoherence, split self
• with modernists we have fragmentation of linearity as in discontinuity
• Alfred Prufrock’s chaotic, reversing the time, time concept is also problematical
• the self, psyche is divided
• and structure is could be any kind of a structure all of them fragmented and problematical
• paradoxical, modernism has both consist of the earlier traditions and things of post modern ideas
• “Make it New”
• Objectivity
• Apocalyptics etc Auden influenced by Eliot and followed him
• Differences of auden and eliot
• modernist are against the emotionality
• distanced self
• With Auden the subjectivity started again
• poetic ego and voice merged in Auden
• We can feel the exhaustion of urban life

Wasteland

• What can we ask if how this is a Modernist Manifesto? Why it is Modernist?
• “Culture of Modernism” Irving?
• April is the cruelest month? why? what spring time is associated with the human mind
• Regenerative power of spring if it is a Romantic poem
• Is there a promise of regeneration?
• Çorak Ülke, the wasteland
• everything going to waste
• desire to be fertile but unable to produce anything
• he reverses and subvert the idea of spring
• not inspirational beginning
• not melancholic
• memory and desire are dull even
• morbid and pessimistic to great extent
• German
• Meaninglessness of the human toil from the Ecclesiastes
• Hyacinth
• Different speakers shows fragmentation of the self
• Tarot and horoscope reference from a woman speaker
• French
• Allusion with Ezra pound starts
• In Vergil Aeneid
• Full of Biblical allusions Broken images ecclesiastes
• Reference to lost aristocracy
• April is the cruelest month” to Canterbury tales ironic counter posing
• Bygone age to Aristocracy
• Bin gar keine Russin” reference to Austrian people as they migrated to south
• Multiple voices another modernist element
• Language of negation, what does it stands for, hopelessness
• Everyone is sick in the city, spiritual sickness of the western
• He is not aware of the regeneration
• line 55 biblical images Jesus carrying cross
• Death by water baptism and rebirth
• Commercialism, she is taking money and she is a fake fortune teller
• No intersubjectivity </aside>

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