The Waste Land T S Eliot By Amal

The Waste Land T. S. Eliot By: Amal Akram Murtaja

Eliot and Myths “Eliot was in full agreement with the current discoveries of the Anthropologists and the psychologists that the old myths were the repository of human wisdom…”

Prophecy 2. “And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I shall speak unto thee. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day”

Judgment against Israel’s Mountains “The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. Your altars shall be demolished and your incense altars will be waste; and I will slay your people in front of ”your idols.

Warning: “your altars shall be desolate You cannot say, or guess, for and you images shall be you know only broken” A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, “and the almond tree shall And the dead tree gives no florish, and the shelter, the cricket no grasshopper shall be a relief. burden and desire shall fail”

The Fisher King, Grail Legend

King Arthur’s Round Table

Weston. . Fertility Myth

Oedipus king, Tiresias

Eliot on Tiresias “Tiresias although a mere spectator and not indeed a character, is yet the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest. Just as the one-eyed merchant, seller of currants, melts into the Phoenician sailor, and the latter is not wholly distinct from Ferdinand, prince of Naples, so all the women are one women, and two sexes meet in Tiresias”

The Fire Sermon “I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see” “I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest - I too awaited the expected guest. ” “And I Tiresias have foresuffered all Enacted on this same divan or bed”

The Waste Land: Epigraph “I have seen with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in the jar, and when the boys asked her “What do you want? ” She answered, “I want to die. ”

Indian prayer: “Lead me from death unto immortality”

The waste land dedication For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro. -The better craftsman.

The Divine Comedy & The Waste Land Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled

The Waste Land Epic? 1. “something like the modern epic. ” 2. I. A. Richards categorized the waste land as an epic in defending its density of literary allusions 3. “The Waste Land is equivalent in content to an epic. ”

THE END By: Amal Akram Murtaja