Ts El Waste Land Flashcards
What happens to people when in broken space?
Unstructured Chaotic within our selves
Landscape of waste land?
Fracturing of space, decayed by water and death etc
Individual in wasteland?
More likely to transgress, optionally broken and granted
What did he want to express?
A fragile human identity, hand to hand combat. Broken and uncertain concepts of civilisation
What is masulinities?
The appreciation of masculine issues which seeks how men handle the expectations society impresses . Masculine not the universal. Perfomativity of gender
Elliot’s concern with masculinity?
What had the war do w to masculinity and men? Expression of paralysis
Sense of self becomes complicated, on war?
Fragmentation of masculine self, ability to communicate breaks down
How does he express the power of history?
Interteuality between past and a new version of poetry. Juxtaposed past and present to reflect modern life.
How does he confuse gender roles?vand expectations?
Non domesticated women. The typist, the vocation. Men are damaged, not courageous. The mythical bloke of hermaphrodite.
Alcohol and smoking? Refs?
Modern change, legalised recently women smoke or drink in public. Women begin to enter education?
Fragmentation and senses?
Bombardment of sensory info, to form the chatic inner city of contemporary time. Fragments self
Myths and religious ritual?
Fertility rituals, which tie with
Infertility of land.
Use of water?
Symbolises life and death. Ties with space which is drowning.
Music?
High and low culture. Snolosed with Pop music. Juxtaposed with operas and prayer. To poss create new
Key themes for burial f the dead, part one. How are theses themes express in metaphor tone juxtaposition and rhyme.
Distortion of nature. Expressed in justo position of Sean’s and expectations. Spring associated with death.
