Introduction of the Poem: The poem ‘No Second Troy’ is one of the famous lyrics of W. B. Yeats. It is supposed to have been written between 1906 and 1907. But it was published in his poetic volume ‘The Green Hemlet and Other Poems’, in 1910. It is one of the many poems that Yeats … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ was written in 1890 and first published in The National Observer’. Innisfree is an island in Lough Gill, Country Sligo, where W. B. Yeats dreamed of living simple and peaceful life in the lap of Nature. When he was in his teens, he had enjoyed natural … Read more
Power of Word Music: Eliot was endowed with an exceptional power of word music. The Waste Land is a symbolic invocation of London, past and present, or a stricken Europe, of the human situation. Music creeps by upon the waters. There are different kinds of music: the song of the Thames daughter; the water dropping … Read more
Introduction: Tiresias has been projected as the protagonist in The Waste Land. Basically, there is only one character in the poem. His presence gives the poem a sense of the oneness of experience and of the unity of all the periods. Tiresias assumes many masks and his voice alternates with the voices of the inmates … Read more
Theme of Disintegration: One of the important themes of The Waste Land is a vision of dissolution and spiritual drought. This spiritual drought arises from the degeneration, vulgarisation, and commercialisation of sex. Sex – act is the source of life and vitality, when it is exercised for the sake of procreation and when it is … Read more