The Waste Land
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| - | '''''The Waste Land''''' ([[1922 in poetry|1922]]) is a highly influential 434-line [[modernist poem]] by [[T. S. Eliot]]. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of [[20th century literature]]. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between [[satire]] and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its [[elegiac]] but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures – the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the [[Sanskrit]] "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line). | + | '''''The Waste Land''''' ([[1922 in poetry|1922]]) is a highly influential 434-line [[modernist poem]] by [[T. S. Eliot]]. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of [[20th century literature]]. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between [[satire]] and [[prophecy]], its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its [[elegiac]] but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures – the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the [[Sanskrit]] "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line). |
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The Waste Land (1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of 20th century literature. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures – the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the Sanskrit "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line).
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