Chiara Dituri
Final paper
The modern literature “To the Light House” by Virginia Woolf and “The Waste Land” by T.S Eliot directly correlates the perspective of World War I and its effect on both life and death. Both authors use stream of consciousness as a way to show multiple perspectives on thoughts of confusion, trauma and chaos that World War I has impacted on many lives. The loss of loved once during war times, is a painful experience that can bring on psychological and painful events throughout someone’s entire life. In To the Lighthouse death blind sides the characters to the true facts of life. Even if you know someone is dying, it is painful and difficult to deal with. In the Waste land by T.S. Eliot, death and chaos is portrayed …show more content…
We see firsthand the dramatic and displeasing attitude within the first lines. “April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing dull roots with spring rain,” (1-5 Burial of the Dead). Eliot uses the month of April, which is a time of new beginnings, as a time where things started to go downhill. The idea of the poem is what bring life also brings death. “Winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow, feeding a little life with dried tubers” (Burial of the Dead 1-5). Eliot shows the characters to be numb, covered in snow, as if there was nothing more to live for and no way to recover from this devastating effect of the war. The War had affected people tremendously; they had lost their loved ones, had seen dead bodies, became ill, and as a result were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. All things combined led these people to feel there is no hope and life will never get better. “I could not speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing” (Burial of The Dead, 38-40). We see here an explanation of a feeling of emptiness in which a person may be living, but may feel dead
Final paper
The modern literature “To the Light House” by Virginia Woolf and “The Waste Land” by T.S Eliot directly correlates the perspective of World War I and its effect on both life and death. Both authors use stream of consciousness as a way to show multiple perspectives on thoughts of confusion, trauma and chaos that World War I has impacted on many lives. The loss of loved once during war times, is a painful experience that can bring on psychological and painful events throughout someone’s entire life. In To the Lighthouse death blind sides the characters to the true facts of life. Even if you know someone is dying, it is painful and difficult to deal with. In the Waste land by T.S. Eliot, death and chaos is portrayed …show more content…
We see firsthand the dramatic and displeasing attitude within the first lines. “April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing dull roots with spring rain,” (1-5 Burial of the Dead). Eliot uses the month of April, which is a time of new beginnings, as a time where things started to go downhill. The idea of the poem is what bring life also brings death. “Winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow, feeding a little life with dried tubers” (Burial of the Dead 1-5). Eliot shows the characters to be numb, covered in snow, as if there was nothing more to live for and no way to recover from this devastating effect of the war. The War had affected people tremendously; they had lost their loved ones, had seen dead bodies, became ill, and as a result were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. All things combined led these people to feel there is no hope and life will never get better. “I could not speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing” (Burial of The Dead, 38-40). We see here an explanation of a feeling of emptiness in which a person may be living, but may feel dead