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The Waste Land is a poem composed by T.S. Eliot, it is regarded as one of the most great works of modern poetry. The poem was first published in Britain in October 1922, and later published in the USA in November of the same year. The poem is a polyphonous conglomerate of different voices that illuminates the terror, disillusionment and alienation of modern life in the wake of the First World War.

The Poem

The poem has a mystical and dark atmosphere. It capture the feelings and sentiments of modern culture that has been traumatized by a catastrophic war. Thus, some of the themes it presents are the loss of faith and moral values, lack of human relationship, mental tension, politics and war, and non-normative sexualities. The world is a man-made wasteland, waiting for a chance of re-birth. Each of the characters appear in sections to express their stress, disgust, confusion or loneliness and then vanish for the  rest of the other sections. Also, the cities are described in a post-apocalyptic sense, where its citizens roam the shattered streets in search of redemption. The Waste Land is full of allusions to mythology, religion, history, and international theologies.

Style And Structure

It is made up of 434 lines and divided into 5 sections entitled as follows:
1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A Game of Chess
3. The Fire sermon
4. Death by Water
5. What the Thunder Said

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-'''''The Waste Land''''' is a poem composed by T.S. Eliot, it is regarded as one of the most great works of modern poetry. The poem was first published in Britain in October 1922, and later published in the U.S. in November of the same year. The poem is a dramatic monologue that illuminates the terror, disillusionment, and alienation of modern life in the wake of WWI.
+'''''The Waste Land''''' is a poem composed by T.S. Eliot, it is regarded as one of the most great works of modern poetry. The poem was first published in Britain in October 1922, and later published in the USA in November of the same year. The poem is a polyphonous conglomerate of different voices that illuminates the terror, disillusionment and alienation of modern life in the wake of the First World War.
 == The Poem ==
-  The poem has a mystical and dark atmosphere as it was intended to capture the feelings and sentiments of the modern culture that has been traumatized by a catastrophic war . Thus, some of the themes it presents are the loss of faith and moral values, lack of human relationship, mental tension, politics and war, and sexual perversion. The world according to Eliot in this poem is a man made wasteland, waiting for a chance of re-birth. Each of the characters appear in sections to express their stress, disgust, confusion, or loneliness and then vanish for the  rest of the other sections. Also, the cities are describes in a post apocalyptical sense, where it's citizens roam the shattered streets in search of redemption. Eliot uses through his poem diverse allusions of mythology, religion, history, and international theologies.
+  The poem has a mystical and dark atmosphere. It capture the feelings and sentiments of modern culture that has been traumatized by a catastrophic war. Thus, some of the themes it presents are the loss of faith and moral values, lack of human relationship, mental tension, politics and war, and non-normative sexualities. The world is a man-made wasteland, waiting for a chance of re-birth. Each of the characters appear in sections to express their stress, disgust, confusion or loneliness and then vanish for the  rest of the other sections. Also, the cities are described in a post-apocalyptic sense, where its citizens roam the shattered streets in search of redemption. ''The Waste Land'' is full of allusions to mythology, religion, history, and international theologies.
 == Style And Structure ==
   It is made up of 434 lines and divided into 5 sections entitled as follows:
-.The Burial of the Dead
+. The Burial of the Dead
-.A Game of Chess
+. A Game of Chess
-.The Fire sermon
+. The Fire sermon
-.Death by Water
+. Death by Water
-.What the Thunder Said
+. What the Thunder Said
- The style in which Eliot uses, highly speaks of the modern features, especially the fragmentation that represents the essence of the poem. There is a disjointed timeline and a plot that is distorted and hard to follow, the engaging of many voices and diverse streams of consciousness, multiple allusions to famous literary and religious texts, characters and traditions . Experiencing with this style of writing is what made this piece, a central work of modern literature. The poem was followed by a lot of notes intended to help the readers make more sense of the text.
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