1. Topic
:- The Mythical Technique in
the Waste Land.
Paper-9
:- The Modernist Literature
Name
:- Devendra A Joshi
Class
:- M.A. Sem-1
Submitted To :- Smt. S. B. Gardi
Department of English
(Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University)
2. T. S. Eliot‟s
„The West Land‟
Important Landmark
History of English Poetry
20th Century
Long poem
Four Hundred forty lines
3. Five parts entitled
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The Burial of the Dead,
A Game of chess,
The Fire Serman,
Death by Water and
What the Thunder Said
First Publication
A Storm of adverse criticism
5. The Mythical Background
Himself has acknowledged
Deeply influenced
Works or anthropology
The ancient and primitive
myths
Mythical Land
Symbolizes contemporary
Decay and spiritual sterility
6. Mythical Method
Germanton
The Nightingales
Other poems
Volume the poem
Eliot uses
Criticism of the present
8. According to A.G.George
“A series of emotions and impressions of
the poet which are expressed though the
objective correlative of the mythical
waste lands, a series of emotions and also
impressions which originate in the poet‟s
mind as he survey human life in the
present as well as in the past.”