The Waste Land: a critical view

the counteract Land In the autumn of 1921. And with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ,the nonplus draft of the poem , which was published in 1922, has become a classic. It is also, much Importantly, the symbol of a whole age, signifying a new kind of poem and a poetic revolution In modern English publications and culture. The poem Is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an whole new and original poetic technique.Elites view that every generation should fetch a poem in its own image is to merely an aesthetically satisfying raisin deter for the composition of The Waste Land, but It Is also a flair of recognizing and placental deferent Interpretations of this great poem by succeeding generations who divulge in its varying images their own predicament. F. R. Leaves has called it a poem -about the disillusionment of a generation, and a vision of dissolution and spiritual drought . L. R.Richard has called The Waste Land- A music of Ideas that the Ideas want musicians phrases are arranged not that they may ensure us something but that their effects on us may blend in into a coherent whole of feeling and attitude. There are critics like Yamaha Lewis who finds The Waste Land- a cross-word puzzle of synthetic literary chronology and a meretricious verbal algebra. It Is difficult to trace accurately the sources of The Waste Land to specific composition or works of Literature apart from well known origins much(prenominal) as Jussive Weston From Ritual to Romance 1920 and James Freezers The Golden Bough 1922.These two books fool been identified by Eliot myself, along with a number of vegetation and birthrate myths and rituals, especially those connected with Taos, Adonis and Souris. However, we do read the echoes of Ovoids Metamorphoses, SST. Augustine Confession, Dents- Inferno and Propagator, Baudelaire Paris La Forges City ,Hangers opera- Tristan and Soled, Chaucer and Spenders writing , S hakespearean- Antonym and Cleopatra, and The Tempest, Millions- Paradise Lost, Kids- The Spanish tragedy, and Middlemans- Woman bear in mind Woman etc. In The Waste Land.More over, the works of Ezra Pond. F. H. Bradley, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce and Henry. James moldiness have greatly Influenced Elites creative process. And, though Eliot largely drew his strong from the Began and Christian sources, the Impact of the Rig Veda , the Pinheads , and Buddhism upon him cannot be overlooked. The poem is concluded with the fabrication of Brickyards Punished. Thus, The Waste Land consists of Fragments, as Eliot himself endorses the view- These Fragments I have shored against my ruins- of potentialities in an otherwise prosaic, shadowy and despairing world.Eliot spoke tit the voice of a lonely seer In a corrupt city, which reflects the post-war struggle for reorientation, immediate sense of ugliness, dressing table and aimlessness of mans spiritual state of post-war years is responsibl e for the genesis of The Waste Land. The deep sense of futility, horror and boredom of post-war generation Is rendered In a most difficult structure of the poem. Despite the erudite commentaries, The Waste Land as a very complex poem gave the world a nutty shock due to its extreme obscurity, a shock that had a remedy effect to the war-crazy world. However, I OFF