Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
An Assignment On
Different Voices And Shifting Points Merge Together to Give a Kind of
Unit Eliot’s The Waste Land with Textual References.
Course Title: Twentieth Century Poetry
Course code: 4104
Submitted By Submitted To
[Link] Rahman Md. Musrifur Jelane
ID: 1402010 Lecturer
Reg: 000005910 Department of English
Session: 2014-2015 Begum Rokeya University,Rangpur
4th year, 1st Semester
Submitted Date:01/09/21
Different Voices And Shifting
Points Merge Together to
Give a Kind of Unity to Eliot’s
“The Waste Land” with
Textual References.
Answer:
TS Elliott’s “The Waste Land” is full with a variety of voices and
instable points that come together to give the poem unity. The poem
incorporates the decline of Western civilization and the sterility of
modern man’s spirituality and creates a lasting tension through a
variety of different voices and points of change that together unite
poetry to bring about changes in modern human life.
Widely regarded as “The Poem of the Century” Elliott’s The
Wasteland expresses concern about the decline of Western
civilization as well as the spiritual infertility of modern man,
which can be interpreted from a variety of perspectives. Various
critics have resorted to social approaches to understanding the
poem, or, alternatively, analyzing its religious and mythological
aspects. However, the use of different expressions and modified
narrative styles in Elliott's voice has been considered relatively
less, using solidarity, dialogue, and free indirect speech.
The study noted that the widespread use of literary allusions to
poetry offers a different functional value than other modernist
writers. Critics have also highlighted the aesthetics of
fragmentation and reunion, which are closely linked to the
symbolic religious meaning of the poem.
Elliott's writing style represents modernity, and is deeply
influenced by environmental concerns as well as its social
background. Compared to rhyme, rhyme and imagery, the
analysis of the narrative style of the poem presents a challenge
to its structure and character. Only a few critics have
emphasized how poetic descriptions work with time and space.
This paper focuses on the use of three voices of TS Elliott's
poems to illustrate the descriptive style discussed in Slomit
Rimon-Kenan's book.
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. It draws upon a
theoretical framework to interpret The Waste Land’s creativity
by using literary allusion and the narration of fragmentation with
regard to the transformation of the poet and the narrator’s
voices.
In the next book, which presents the collaborative theory of
chronology, Slomit Rimon-Kenan concludes that descriptive
fiction has three elements: "story", "text", and "narrative". As the
author emphasizes, “a legacy of events” is a specific feature
associated with narrative fiction. This suggests that multiple
narratives exist.
Accordingly, this analysis classifies waste land as a descriptive
poem, as it contains a great deal of narration, description, and
dialogue. Moreover, these elements are analyzed to help the poet
adopt a modernist narrative style in poetry.
The poem shows the way out of spiritual death and finds its
solution in Hari Pragya of India. The opening lines of the poem
are ready for the crucifixion of Christ, then we see the pain of
the throat sensitivity of the ‘mountain of stone without water’.
The nightmare reversals in the vision of the Chapel Perilous,
and the Imagery of the thunder's message.
Frequent references to past times of spirituality and
soundness enable the reader to feel the transition from the
ideal past to the broken, rotten and morally lost present
modern world where people value money, not heart health.
Tradition emphasizes history and paints a picture of
humanity destroyed after World War II. Moreover, the
presentation of his various voices in the form of music
summons his idea of modernity and unites them with these
variable points in order to provide unity in poetry.
