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
Introduction of Poem: This poem “Enterprise” appeared in Nissim Ezekiel’s fourth volume of poems which was first published in 1960 and, in its second edition, in 1965, under the heading “The Unfinished Man”. Here we have an allegorical poem, that is, a poem which, apart from its surface meaning, has a meaning below the surface. … Read more