The Waste Land

Amy Bosma Professor Marrow ENC1102 Tues./Thurs. 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. 25 March 2017 The Land of Plenty: Food Waste in America The issue of food waste in the United States is becoming a recognizable problem and is worthy of examination. It is estimated that nearly twenty-five to forty percent of the food grown in the United States is never eaten. Consequently, the amount of edible food left to decompose in farmer’s fields or taken to landfills is estimated at seventy billion pounds per year,…

“What is the city over the mountains/Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air/Falling towers/Jerusalem Athens Alexandria/Vienna London/Unreal.” Images such as this are prominent throughout T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land. These images depict, quite literally, the wasteland that society has become, and displays the fear that the author has for the future. Images of wastelands-desolation, isolation, destruction, ruin, the fall of nature- are dominate theme within modernist literature and…

In the documentary film, Waste Land Vik Muniz travels back to his home country and ultimately gives back to the community in the only way he knows how art. Muniz chose a landfill in Jardim Gramacho and collaborated with some local Pickers to create art with the materials they use every day at work. At first, people did not understand his vision and became skeptical, but when Muniz revealed his finished work everyone who participated was surprised. In Muniz art, the choice of material, social…

The Waste Land invokes a feeling of nostalgia for a time gone by coupled with a sense of dissonance for what the world has become. The last vestiges, like the fragments stand as reminders that we can never go back. This embrace of the fragmentation offers no resolve but rather demonstrates a sort of encumbered acceptance of the world as it is now with ever so brief glimpses of hope, which come and go. Even the structure of the poem itself is as presented as fragmentary, a reflection of the…

The relationship between literary tradition and modern literature in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Richard Aldington’s Choricos Modernism is a movement in literature that began in the first years of the 20th century. One of its main goals was to revitalise literature and free it from the boundaries of literary tradition. However, different modernists had contrasting ideas about how this goal should be achieved. T. S. Eliot thought that artists can never truly break free from literary canon…

only a few that earned him the respect as T.S Eliot. The most famous poem from T.S Eliot is none other than The Waste Land. Most of Mr. Eliot’s poems are and have been love poems. Not just any love poems but poems of love going wrong. The Waste Land is product of his first marriage to Vivien. More or less it can be described as a cry of pain in a sense. Like “Prufrock” The Waste Land shows only partial rhyme with short bursts of structure. Which can either A be used to reference to an earlier…

Themes of nature in the works of T S Eliot T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an imperative breakthrough in the history of English poetry and one of the most deliberated poems of the twentieth century. It is a long poem of about four hundred forty lines in the five parts entitled 1) The Burial of the dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water and 5) What the Thunder said. The poet was just recovering after a serious breakdown in health, caused by domestic worries and over-work…

T.S Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” Eliot 's poem, “The Waste Land” (1922), embodies the essence of this quote; take from what is already there, and place his own updated interpretation for the modern audience to provide their own temporal relativist view on top of the already layered meaning of the original work quoted within Eliot 's poem. The…

of a literary work because its meaning is restricted by genre, author, and linearity. The reader is not able to actively engage in the production of this text, hence, the act of reading is an act of consumption and the work is a commodity. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is an example of a text because the person who reads is not constrained by linearity and hierarchy, therefore, the reader can actively produce the text. It is only when the reader tries to read this text as a traditional work that…

Indonesia is one of the countries with abundance of natural resources with large populations. According to World Bank (2013) Indonesia is lower middle income country with GDP around 868.3 billion US dollar and the population is 249.9 million, while poverty headcount ration at national poverty line is 11.3% on 2014. The contention appear that this wealth resources country get the benefit or even get worse with the plenty of their natural resources. The economic growth in Indonesia in period…