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LESSON NOTES: 14.03.12
THE WASTE LAND
THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
T.S.ELIOT
The poem starts with a Greek quotation which works an epigraph. The lines in Greek are taken from Petronius' Satyricon and they say the following words: " Del resto la Sibilla, a Cuma, l'ho vista anch'io con I miei occhi penzolare dentro un'ampolla, e quando i fanciulli le chiedevano: <> lei rispondeva <>.
The poemi s dedicated to Ezra Pound. He is the father of the Imagist Poetry, a kind of poetry which develops in the earlier years of the 20th century which exploited the linguistic power as well as the emotional power of the images.
Eliot dedicates him his poem because he promoted innovative forms of poetry and Ezra Pound was one of the most significant people with T. S. Eliot had came into contact with; furthermore Ezra Pound had read the Waste Land in its manuscript form and had suggested T.S Eliot to cut some of the poem parts. The parts that Ezra Pound cut were THE MOST NARRATIVE.
The Sybil asks to the gods to be immortal: but it's a condemnation because she doesn't asks the eternal youth.
It is an intertextual poem: it's made on other texts. The narrative method is replaced by the mythical one.
The quotation in the epigraph anticipates the atmosphere of the Land which is not longer fertile.
The first line deals with April, but not in an ordinary way: Eliot says that April is the cruelest month.
THE WASTE LAND
THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
T.S.ELIOT
The poem starts with a Greek quotation which works an epigraph. The lines in Greek are taken from Petronius' Satyricon and they say the following words: " Del resto la Sibilla, a Cuma, l'ho vista anch'io con I miei occhi penzolare dentro un'ampolla, e quando i fanciulli le chiedevano: <> lei rispondeva <>.
The poemi s dedicated to Ezra Pound. He is the father of the Imagist Poetry, a kind of poetry which develops in the earlier years of the 20th century which exploited the linguistic power as well as the emotional power of the images.
Eliot dedicates him his poem because he promoted innovative forms of poetry and Ezra Pound was one of the most significant people with T. S. Eliot had came into contact with; furthermore Ezra Pound had read the Waste Land in its manuscript form and had suggested T.S Eliot to cut some of the poem parts. The parts that Ezra Pound cut were THE MOST NARRATIVE.
The Sybil asks to the gods to be immortal: but it's a condemnation because she doesn't asks the eternal youth.
It is an intertextual poem: it's made on other texts. The narrative method is replaced by the mythical one.
The quotation in the epigraph anticipates the atmosphere of the Land which is not longer fertile.
The first line deals with April, but not in an ordinary way: Eliot says that April is the cruelest month.