T'S' Eliots The Waste Land

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T.S. Eliots The Waste Land

• Burial of the Dead
• Presentation

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Introduction

• Many interpretations possible
• A lot of references Dante, Virgil, Baudelaire,
  Bible, Tristan Isolde, Greek mythology, The
  Quest of the Holy Grail
• Division into five sections

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Introduction

• Waste Land Infertility, death
• Burial of the Dead
• - dealing with death
  
• - transition (vs. 94 Living
  nor dead)
• Main ideas ? Love / Desire unfulfilling
  relationship
• ? Quest (pleasant) life,
• fertility

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First section

• Vs. 1 - 18
• Sibylla
• (http//eliotswasteland.tripod.com/)

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First section

• Walt Whitman
• Marie Larisch

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Second section

• Vs. 19 30
• Fertility ? Rising from the dead land
• What branches grow out of this stony rubbish?
  Vs. 19-20
• Ezechiel 27
• Ecclesiastes 125 ? Quest for pleasant life

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Second section

• Sun
• Dry vs. Water
• Evening/ morning daily roundHandful of dust
  consciousness of mortality

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Third section

• Vs. 31 - 42
• Connection Tristan Isolde quest and love
• Desire for rebirth (hyacinth)
• Failure of love and rebirth ? living nor dead
  ? Inferno Limbo state
• Connection with the Quest of the Holy Grail

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Fourth section

• Vs. 43 - 59
• Connection with Holy Grail The wisest woman
  in Europe with a
• wicked pack of cards. vs. 46
• Fisher King Here is the man with the three
  staves. vs. 51
• Belladonna
• The Hanged Man

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Fifth section

• Vs. 60 76
• Crowd is between life and death
• Unreal City ? Hell (Dante)
• Rings, infidelity
• Limbo
• Cerberus

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Our names

• Hans Verhees
• Marte Schallenberg
• Ivana Augustinska
• Veronika Berdisova
• Joop Schell