“The Waste Land”

Notes on “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot

On: June 2, 2025

General Information Historical and Literary Context Structure The poem is divided into five sections: Section Summaries & Analysis 1. The Burial of the Dead 2. A Game of Chess 3. The Fire Sermon 4. Death by Water 5. What the Thunder Said Major Themes Key Symbols Style and Techniques FamousContinue Reading

“The Waste Land” – Critical Appreciation

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On: June 2, 2025

In: "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot

There is almost a critical consensus that T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land exhibits the sordid reality of the crisis of western civilization in the aftermath of World War I (1914-1918), which was the most destructive war in human history to that point. Many people saw the poem as anContinue Reading