The Wasteland

The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot
- Allusion
- Random connections
- Disorientation is perhaps the point Eliot wants
- Disconnect
- Eliot cut out transitional phrases and then it was edited
     - Eliot realizes the allusions wouldnot get picked up in general
- Eliot referenced the most obscure parts of works
     - even if familar with the works, you may not understand
- Disorientation is key
- Not catching the references is the point
- Trying to unify the common defragmentation of the modern/reality of  life/ the world

Allusions in The Wasteland
- Bible
- Tristan and Isolde
- Dante's Inferno
- White Devil
- The Tempest
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- Aenied
- Paradise Lost
- Ovid's Metamorphisis
- Webster's The Devil's Law
- Dante's Purgatorio
- St. Augustine's Confessions

Sandskrit; the first language.
     - The Tower of Babel

Myth
- The Grail Quest
     - Fisher King
          - Damaged, old, impotent king
     - The land is thus infertile as well
- Jesus
- Rebirth
- "Corpse planted" in wasteland
- "Nothing will grow out of stony land"
- Tiresias (Oedipus) the seer/prophet
     - Lived 7 years as woman
     - Juno kept punishing him
     - Jove gave him the gift of prophecy


Test

The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot. The Wasteland is one of the works of the Modern Era that is especially unique. There is a certain amount of disorientation that occurs when reading the work. It jumps around and tries to form of disconnection of what you know. All the while he uses references across the text that is rare for the common people to get all of the references thrown about. He references the most obscure parts of popular works, changes languages for a couple of lines, and shows the reality of the world by causing a defragmentation of the references. To be alive is to not understand everything, there's a certain human quality in the misunderstanding of this work. As far as the relation of the quotation within the entirety of the work is the London bridge is the connection of the land masses that were separated by a river, in this case it is symbolically representing bridging this life with the afterlife.