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Published in 1922
👉 It's dedicated to Ezra pound who made a lot many improvement and abridged it in the present form.
It is called “condensed epic" by I A Richardson.
Eliot was known for a technic ‘objective correlative’.
Richardson called it ‘poetic shorthand’.
Main themes of the poem:---
A. Spiritual degeneration
B. Disillusionment
C. Boredom of a generation
👉 Tiresias is the central figure of the poem,an interested spectator of the modern waste land.
👉 Tiresias comes as spokes man of Eliot.
It is divided 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
👉It depends on Indian mythology Shanti,Shanti,Shanti(upnisad)
Thanking you
Sonu Prajapati
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