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• Name: Khanjaniba M Gohil. 
• Class: MA (Part-2nd). 
• Semester: 3rd. 
• Roll no: 13. 
• Paper Name: The Modernist Literature. 
• Topic: Collage images of the poem “The Waste 
Land” by T.S.Eliot. 
• Suggested by: Dr.Dilip Barad. 
• Dedicated to: The Department of English, 
Smt.S. D. Gardi & B. V. Gardi, 
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji, 
Bhavnagar University 
Bhavnagar.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 
Contribution in literature from 1905 to 1965. 
Nobel prize in Literature (1948). 
“ Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in 1915. 
“ Four Quartets” in 1944. 
Seven plays. 
Grand father William Greenleaf Eliot had 
established Unitarian Church. 
Mother was a social worker namely Charlotte 
Champe Stearns. 
Childhood passed nearby a big river.
Background to the poem 
• The poem is written as a tribute to Ezrapound. 
• Poem was published during so many distruction in 
his life. 
• His wife Vivien was suffering from disorder. 
• So the frustration of his struggles is reflected much 
in this poem. 
• It approaches to despairs an sorrow. 
• Poem is difficult to understand because it has effect 
of fragmented images. 
• What we called it as a ‘Collage’.
Parts of the poem 
 The Burial of the dead. 
 A Game of Chess. 
 The Fire Sermon. 
 Death by Water. 
 What the Thunder Said.
The Burial of the dead 
 Starts from season, mixing memory and desire. 
 Image of Madame Sosostris , as a clever woman. 
 Unreal city and hypocratical people.
A Game of Chess 
 Things in Xylograph in Lady’s chamber. 
 Myth of Nightingale which is inviolable. 
 War event is sketched through ‘Fiery points’. 
 Extra marital affair of a lady. 
 Albert : Second world war’s warier. 
 “Good night, ladies, good night, 
sweet ladies, good night, good night”.
The Fire Sermon 
 Sermon= sut/ sutra. 
 River Thames, became dirty. 
 Rat as a symbol of death. 
 Mrs. Porter reference to a prostitution. 
 The typist woman and Tiresias . 
 “ Burning burning burning burning 
O Lord though pluckest me out 
O Lord though pluckest”. 
 Burning ideas Of Buddha.
Death by Water 
 Water as a part of human life. 
 Phlebas: Self ego is considered by him, was a 
Fabian sailor/ merchant. 
 He was drowned himself in a sea. 
 Kleanth Brook’s poem “ Life in death, death in life”. 
 Gujarati writer AKHO, who always thinks that only I 
can, nobody else.
What the Thunder Said 
 Frosty garden: Jesus was carried away(religion). 
 “ He who was living is now dead”. 
 Dead mountain- recurring time and again. 
 Death of God and God never dies: conflicts. 
 Falling towers: Capitals of post civilizations.
 Da: Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata. 
 Datta- God. 
 Dayadhvam- Humans. 
 Damyata- Demons. 
 Gandhiji: “ Nature has everything to satisfy the 
needs of humans, but nothing to satisfy “. 
Shantih shantih shantih: a silent ( muteness).
Wasteland as a collage image

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Wasteland as a collage image

  • 1. • Name: Khanjaniba M Gohil. • Class: MA (Part-2nd). • Semester: 3rd. • Roll no: 13. • Paper Name: The Modernist Literature. • Topic: Collage images of the poem “The Waste Land” by T.S.Eliot. • Suggested by: Dr.Dilip Barad. • Dedicated to: The Department of English, Smt.S. D. Gardi & B. V. Gardi, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji, Bhavnagar University Bhavnagar.
  • 2. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Contribution in literature from 1905 to 1965. Nobel prize in Literature (1948). “ Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in 1915. “ Four Quartets” in 1944. Seven plays. Grand father William Greenleaf Eliot had established Unitarian Church. Mother was a social worker namely Charlotte Champe Stearns. Childhood passed nearby a big river.
  • 3. Background to the poem • The poem is written as a tribute to Ezrapound. • Poem was published during so many distruction in his life. • His wife Vivien was suffering from disorder. • So the frustration of his struggles is reflected much in this poem. • It approaches to despairs an sorrow. • Poem is difficult to understand because it has effect of fragmented images. • What we called it as a ‘Collage’.
  • 4. Parts of the poem  The Burial of the dead.  A Game of Chess.  The Fire Sermon.  Death by Water.  What the Thunder Said.
  • 5. The Burial of the dead  Starts from season, mixing memory and desire.  Image of Madame Sosostris , as a clever woman.  Unreal city and hypocratical people.
  • 6. A Game of Chess  Things in Xylograph in Lady’s chamber.  Myth of Nightingale which is inviolable.  War event is sketched through ‘Fiery points’.  Extra marital affair of a lady.  Albert : Second world war’s warier.  “Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night”.
  • 7. The Fire Sermon  Sermon= sut/ sutra.  River Thames, became dirty.  Rat as a symbol of death.  Mrs. Porter reference to a prostitution.  The typist woman and Tiresias .  “ Burning burning burning burning O Lord though pluckest me out O Lord though pluckest”.  Burning ideas Of Buddha.
  • 8. Death by Water  Water as a part of human life.  Phlebas: Self ego is considered by him, was a Fabian sailor/ merchant.  He was drowned himself in a sea.  Kleanth Brook’s poem “ Life in death, death in life”.  Gujarati writer AKHO, who always thinks that only I can, nobody else.
  • 9. What the Thunder Said  Frosty garden: Jesus was carried away(religion).  “ He who was living is now dead”.  Dead mountain- recurring time and again.  Death of God and God never dies: conflicts.  Falling towers: Capitals of post civilizations.
  • 10.  Da: Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata.  Datta- God.  Dayadhvam- Humans.  Damyata- Demons.  Gandhiji: “ Nature has everything to satisfy the needs of humans, but nothing to satisfy “. Shantih shantih shantih: a silent ( muteness).