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CTullis - 5 A. T.S. Eliot's Modernist Poetry and Metaphysical Poetry View task. Notes about The Waste Land (2)
by - (2012-04-07)
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In the third scene of the first section the reader comes across again in a waste land. Roots need to find a fixed point and they try to grasp in the land; then there follows an intertextuality from the Bible, from Ezechiele.
The addresser is invocated and you perceive a sterile dry land but the image is not simple to be understand on the naturalistic level (sun, dead tree, cricket: semantic area of nature) and they convey the idea of a desolate landscape. Inside it there is somebody talking to "son of man". But you know that he cannot answer because he lives in a world where everything seems to have lost any sense, a frightened world.
The son of man can only see the sun which create another dry atmosphere. The dead trees cannot sprout, blossom; the cricket (a typical part of nature) doesn't bring relief. There are extending metaphors that imply an impossibility of regeneration. The day becomes metaphor of the nature's and life's circle.