Modernist Poetry and Literature: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Dubliners, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Modernist Poetry and Literature: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Dubliners e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! MODERNIST POETRY THEWASTE LAND The Waste Land is divided into 5 sections: The Burial of the Dead → life vs death A Game of Chess → present squalor vs the past splendor The Fire Sermon → present alienation described by a squalid, loveless sexual encounter Death by Water → spiritual shipwreck (Phlebas, died by drowning) What the Thunder said → Eastern and Western religions The main themes are the collapse of civilization through the ages, the contrast between the fertility of a mythical past and the spiritual sterility of the present world, the despair of living in a modern and alienated world. The Waste Land is one of the best examples of Modernist Poetry. Present and the past exist simultaneously. Eliot provides allusions to and quotations from many literary works from different cultures and religions, such as the Bible and Hindu texts. This led to a mixture of different poetic styles which reflects Eliot’s concept of history. Eliot uses the tcehnique of implication, the objective correlative and the juxtaposition: squalid elements are paired with poetic ones. In The Waste Land, the shifts in time and space are created by the free associations of ideas and thoughts that Eliot called “unattended moments”. ELIOT AND MONTALE - comparison Eugenio Montale's first collection of poems was “Ossi di Seppia”. Arsenio is a poem from this collection, the setting is a seaside resort and the author talks about an outbreak of a thunderstorm. This event represents for Arsenio a way to escape from his anguished life, but he can't get out of his life and decides to come back to the monotony of it. Montale has in common with Eliot the use of the objective correlative. For Eliot, the 'objective correlative' is a pattern of objects, events, actions, or a situation that can serve effectively to awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion. Both Eliot and Montale depict a desolate landscape. They both refer to a waste land of the spirit. This landscape is cosmopolitan in Eliot. It is a domestic landscape in Montale. JAMES JOYCE He was born in Dublin in 1882. He studied modern languages and his interest was for a broader European culture. He believed that the only way to increase Ireland’s awareness was to offer a realistic portrait of its life from a European, cosmopolitan viewpoint. In 1904 he left Dublin to work in a language school in Trieste, where he bonded with the Italian writer Italo Svevo. In Trieste he had some problems with the publishers because of supposedly obscene