Waste Land Essay: Journey Through The Waste Land -- T.S. Eliot Waste L

T. S. Eliot drafted The Waste Land during a trip to Lausanne, Switzerland to consult a psychologist for what he described as wacky case of nerves. He sent the manuscript to Ezra Pound for editing assistance. amid them the draft was extensively edited and published in 1922. As a modernist poet, Eliot struggled to remove the voice of the author from his work but the work is bland a reflection of the authors interpretation. He paints the picture as he sees it for the readers to view and interpret from their own perspective. The Waste Land could be viewed as a chronicle Eliots difficult and not quite successful journey to confront his own unconscious or uncanny reality. Viewed psychologically, Eliots juxtaposition of scenes of sterility, fecundity, and sacrifice represents the speakers conscious consciousness of a sterile society, and his abortive attempt to experience the unconscious (Jones 22). Eliots depiction of a spiritually empty and lost society is a reflection of his inner search for a life-defining spiritual religious belief. Eliots gist is that modern man leads a very hollow and disconnected human beings because he has abandoned his spiritual values in pursuit of material wealth. Eliot begins The Waste Land by bemoaning the fact that spring exudes false commit through its evidence of new growth and destroys the numbness and warmth acquired during wintertimes hibernation from life or feeling. The return of feeling brings renewed deferred payment of the emptiness and barrenness of modern life. What Eliot wants to highlight is the pain of coming mainstay to life (Torrens 24). He expresses the cause of the pain in the description of the stony and barren landscape in which there is no shelter and null can grow. Mans spirit can... ...aracter of his poetry after his conversion. Bottum nonetheless would argue that although he possibly found a personal faith he was never quite able to present that faith in his later works. What we encounter in h is late poetry, however, is a profound surprise of faith with a brilliant and learned mans sage understanding that he needs to have faith (Bottum 23). Works Cited Bottum, J. What T. S. Eliot around Believed. First Things. April 1996. 21-6 Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 6th Ed. Vol 2. Ed. Maynard Mack. New York Norton, 1992. 1751-64. Jones, Joyce Meeks. Jungian psychological science in Literary Analysis A Demonstration Using T. S. Eliots Poetry. Washington D.C. University Press, 1979. Torrens, James S. T. S. Eliot 75 Years of The Waste Land. America. 25 Oct 1997. 24-7.