The Waste Land

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The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf modernist poem ⓘ
poem ⓘ
alludesTo Inferno ⓘ
The Canterbury Tales ⓘ
The Golden Bough ⓘ
The Tempest ⓘ
The Waste Land (Grail legend) ⓘ
linked to: The Waste Land

Tristan und Isolde ⓘ
Upanishads ⓘ
author T. S. Eliot ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
dedicatedTo Ezra Pound ⓘ
editor Ezra Pound ⓘ
firstPublicationDate 1922 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn The Criterion ⓘ
The Dial ⓘ
form free verse ⓘ
genre modernist literature ⓘ
hasCriticalReception considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century ⓘ
hasFamousLine April is the cruellest month ⓘ
I will show you fear in a handful of dust ⓘ
Shantih shantih shantih ⓘ
linked to: Jesus Prayer

These fragments I have shored against my ruins ⓘ
hasNarrativeMode shifting perspectives ⓘ
unreliable narration ⓘ
hasParatext author’s notes ⓘ
influenced Anglophone modernist poetry ⓘ
New Criticism ⓘ
influencedBy Buddhist texts ⓘ
linked to: Tripitaka

Charles Baudelaire ⓘ
Dante Alighieri ⓘ
Ezra Pound ⓘ
Hindu Upanishads ⓘ
linked to: Upanishads

James Joyce ⓘ
William Shakespeare ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lengthInLines about 433 ⓘ
literaryMovement Modernism ⓘ
notableCharacter Madame Sosostris ⓘ
Tiresias ⓘ
numberOfSections 5 ⓘ
publisher Boni & Liveright ⓘ
Faber and Faber ⓘ
section A Game of Chess ⓘ
Death by Water ⓘ
The Burial of the Dead ⓘ
linked to: The Waste Land

The Fire Sermon ⓘ
What the Thunder Said ⓘ
setInTime post–World War I era ⓘ
setting London ⓘ
linked to: London, England
theme decay of Western civilization ⓘ
fragmentation ⓘ
loss of meaning ⓘ
post–World War I disillusionment ⓘ
search for redemption ⓘ
spiritual desolation ⓘ
usesTechnique literary allusion ⓘ
montage ⓘ
multiple voices ⓘ
mythic method ⓘ
stream of consciousness ⓘ

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