Eliot and Yeats

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Reading through other's posts, I'm glad to see pretty much everyone is clueless when analyzing "The Wasteland". The poem itself is so confusing, because it seems like every other line is a new shift into a different voice, when the last voice wasn't even done speaking just yet. The general feeling from the poem made me think to the sheer madness of an apocalypse. Voices from all over the world, crying out their woes. The title of the poem doesn't help either (anytime I hear "wasteland" I think of mad max).

I do think that Yeats' "Second Coming" could be seen as a sort of preface to "The Wasteland". A beast, described as a sphinx, rising from it's 20th century long slumber and lumbering towards Bethlehem...? As chilling as it is pointing to the end of days that "The Wasteland" makes me think off.

PS. I commented on Ethan and Tobias' posts.

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  1. Phillip VoJanuary 15, 2018 at 7:12 PM

    I completely agree when you say that analyzing the wasteland was CONFUSING! Thats why I just picked a part I understood and went with it. I do definitely see recurring themes of just overall depression and hopelessness though, which are somethings you would experience during an apocalypse. As for the sphinx, had no idea what was going on there either... but it is interesting imagery to use an old figure of history in a poem about a "second coming."

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  2. Sophia ColbertJanuary 15, 2018 at 7:15 PM

    Apocalypse. That's a good way to put it. A lot of works about a possible end to humanity came out during the twentieth century.

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