19th December 2019

 The Waste Land = La Terra Desolata

What are the main features of a land that is wasted? Uninhabited, sterile

Why is the land called waste?

As it ever been fertile?

It is wrote by T.S. Eliot in 1922

T.S. Eliot --> Thomas Stearns Eliot

Quotation => 2 languages: Latin, Greek

The quotation, making reference to mythological figures, refers to priestesses => religious code

--> 3 language: Latin, Greek, English

Sibilla --> prophecy

Sibilla Cumana => Michelangelo

Apollo => in contrast with Dionysian style

Who is the Ideal Reader? One that can understand English, Latin and Greek. => A very well-read person

Dedication: The poem was written for Ezra Pound: il miglior artigiano => who produce art crafts à imagist

I. The Burial of the Dead = La Sepoltura Dei Morti

=>The number 1 suggests that there are more than 1

Burial = sepoltura

To bury = seppellire

What kind of atmosphere suggest the title? Melancholic, SAD, pessimistic, disquieting

April is the cruellest month

April => nature is regenerating + beginning of spring

Nature is supposed to re-born

Reference to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales --> April is the sweetest month

Geoffrey Chaucer => Poet poets’ + First to use the English language to write poetry

-->  T.S. Eliot goes to the roots

To blossom = fiorire, sbocciare, crescere

Comma => pause in the line

Far germogliare i lillà dalla terra morta

Lillà --> fiori della morte

To mix memories and desires => simultaneous vision

Tempo della coscienza = tempo dell’eterno presente

Living between expectations and memories = not living

T.S. Eliot is speaking about people’s consciousness

Dramatic monologue

T.S. Eliot uses classical stereotypes