The Wasteland Flashcards
1
Q
Which French poets influence Eliot to write about urban grunge?
A
Jules LaForgue and Charles Baudelaire.
2
Q
What did French poetry show Eliot about structure?
A
Poetry could be ‘vers libre’
3
Q
What does the poems use of allusion link to?
A
Elliot’s use of impersonality, and going against romantic poetry with ‘I’ at its centre.
4
Q
Who’s perspective does Elliott suggest we see the poem from in his (notoriously unreliable) notes?
A
Tiresias - unreliable however.
5
Q
(Critic) Squire
A
‘A vagrant string of drab pictures’
6
Q
Rascoe
A
‘An erudite despair’
7
Q
Akern
A
‘This poem is not in any formal sense coherent’
