" Thus the poem becomes a pilgrimage of Eliot across the spiritual landscape of the world. Augustine's Confessions on burning and Buddha's Fire Sermon on its remedy, Eliot preaches Datta, Dayadhvam and Damyata as the key virtues for the attainment of Shantih or " the peace that passeth understanding. Read The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis available from Rakuten Kobo. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. In this gripping account, award-winning biographer Matthew Hollis reconstructs the making of the poem and brings its times vividly to life. Eliot’s masterpiece remains a work of comparative mystery. But a century after its publication in 1922, T.
Thrashing out the problem in the light of St. The Waste Land is the greatest poem of the age. From the epigraph to the very concluding line of the poem, through numerous references and allusions to literary masterpieces and religious texts ranging over history, Eliot addresses the question of desire-craving-in view of the essentials of Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. The traditional tags on the poem such as " a poem about Europe " and a poem about the " disillusionment of a generation " serve only to blinker the reader against its universal and spiritual dimensions. Eliot's poem The Waste Land is a pilgrimage in quest of an answer to the problem of desire-universal as well as personal-especially deviant sexuality, immoral behavior and their consequences.
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