T.S. Eliot’s works have often been thought of as hopeless and dreary because the topics in his works reflect the problems with society and humanity as a whole. They reflect an obsession with loss and isolation, and how it affects people. His modernist way of writing forces readers to think about his works in a multitude of ways. “The Waste Land” is a poem that is considered to be one of the best poems to come out in the twentieth century because of its ideas and the controversy surrounding the work. Even though at a first glance the poem is exceptionally bleak, parts of this poem are jolly and at times sarcastic. The mixing of levity and grimness in his poem highlights certain topics that he is trying to bring attention to. He uses jokes and playfulness to show how society as a whole
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Eliot’s works have often been thought of as hopeless and dreary because the topics in his works reflect the problems with society and humanity as a whole. They reflect an obsession with loss and isolation, and how it affects people. His modernist way of writing forces readers to think about his works in a multitude of ways. “The Waste Land” is a poem that is considered to be one of the best poems to come out in the twentieth century because of its ideas and the controversy surrounding the work. Even though at a first glance the poem is exceptionally bleak, parts of this poem are jolly and at times sarcastic. The mixing of levity and grimness in his poem highlights certain topics that he is trying to bring attention to. He uses jokes and playfulness to show how society as a whole has become lazy and he uses both the form and the content to show this idea. He also uses form to show jolliness in his poem to highlight the power of art. There jokes in this poem show that there is some idea of hope in the world. The moments of comic lightness in “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot draws the reader’s attention to specific points in the poem that highlight certain issues he is trying to
Eliot’s works have often been thought of as hopeless and dreary because the topics in his works reflect the problems with society and humanity as a whole. They reflect an obsession with loss and isolation, and how it affects people. His modernist way of writing forces readers to think about his works in a multitude of ways. “The Waste Land” is a poem that is considered to be one of the best poems to come out in the twentieth century because of its ideas and the controversy surrounding the work. Even though at a first glance the poem is exceptionally bleak, parts of this poem are jolly and at times sarcastic. The mixing of levity and grimness in his poem highlights certain topics that he is trying to bring attention to. He uses jokes and playfulness to show how society as a whole has become lazy and he uses both the form and the content to show this idea. He also uses form to show jolliness in his poem to highlight the power of art. There jokes in this poem show that there is some idea of hope in the world. The moments of comic lightness in “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot draws the reader’s attention to specific points in the poem that highlight certain issues he is trying to