The Allusions in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land The Waste Land is an important poem. It has something important to say and it should have an important effect on the reader. But it is not easy. In Eliot’s own words: "We can say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization as it exists at present‚ must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity‚ and this variety and complexity‚ playing upon a refined sensibility‚ must produce various and complex results. The
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civilization teaches Odysseus the skill of using wooden staff and wine to fight with Polyphemus’s strength‚ but the nature of superpower can easily surpass human beings’ wisdom. When Circe in Book 11 turns Odysseus’s men into pigs‚ when the blind prophet Tiresias foretells Odysseus’s fate‚ and when Zeus punishes Odysseus with another storm‚ Odysseus and his men are powerless but accept their destiny. The conflict between nature and culture connects humans’ world with gods’ world‚ thus makes every story interesting
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ignores the fact that his family is suffering and even his people. He makes fun of his son‚ for his choice of a bride. When Argan and Theban die‚ Creon is stubborn and refuses to give them a respectful ceremony. And lastly‚ he is disrespectful to Tiresias when he is just simply trying to warn Creon of the consequences coming to him. In the end‚ Creon suffers the most because he does way more harm than good and karma was bound to bite him sometime. Antigone suffers greatly too just not as much as
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even though both Odysseus and Bergdahl were consciously making choices‚ there were other figures and groups determining their fate for them. In Odysseus’s case‚ the Olympian gods had taken sides even though the outcome had been prophesized‚ told by Tiresias‚ ”You all may still reach Ithaca” or “you will find a world of pain at home”(253). Odysseus did know what was going to happen to him in the distant future‚ while Bergdahl was in a constant state of confusion‚ trapped in dark rooms without knowledge
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Odyssey Essay I‚ Odysseus‚ fought with Greek heroes at Troy‚ and struggle to find my way back to my kingdom in Ithaca. I started my journey to Ithaca from Troy but my ship was carried away by a storm. My crew‚ ship and I ended up in the country of Lotophages. The Lotophages people ate the lotus plant‚ which made you forget everything. I then got my crew back on the ship and we sailed off to Ithaca from there. We then ended up on the island where Cyclops Polyphemus lived; he shoved my men and me
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Jon Solis Professor Mullins EWRT1B 15 February‚ 2014 Compare and Contrast Separated by almost 3000 years of literature‚ two plays can still contain similar elements and characteristics that tie the two together. This is the case between the two plays‚ Oedipus The King and its counterpart Death of a Salesman‚ one written approximately 430 BC and the other written in 1949. When first reading this book‚ one might question‚ what could these stories possibly have in common; one is about a king
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Literary Devices in Oedipus Rex Dramatic Irony: For example‚ when Creon tells Oedipus about the god’s curse on Thebes‚ Oedipus puts his own curse on the murderer of Laius‚ not knowing it was he who killed Laius (Sophocles‚ 14). Throughout the book‚ Oedipus learns things that the audience would have already known‚ like when Oedipus discovers who his parents really are. Verbal Irony: “I pray that the man’s life be consumed in evil and wretchedness” – Oedipus (Sophocles 14) Oedipus demands that the
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fires- unless these prophecies all come true” (985-990). It is understandable that they would begin to question their belief system‚ but its scary to abandon what you know. It almost seems like they would prefer all these horrible prophecies from the Tiresias be true so they don’t have to
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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C.J. Hassan Mr. Woodbury English H/P. 5 4/19/13 Tragedy: The Power to Change Feelings “Tragedy” is a term that although complex was given definition by Aristotle in his Poetics. In drama‚ specifically‚ “. . . a tragedy is a play‚ in verse or prose‚ that recounts an important and casually related series of events in the life of a person of significance‚ such events culminating in an unhappy catastrophe‚ the whole treated with great dignity and seriousness” (Handbook 505). Sophocles’ play Oedipus
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