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The Waste Land T. S Eliot summary - Easy and detailed explanation of all the 5 sections | Learning Literature with Purba | YouTubeToText
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the wasteland was published in 1952 and
it was with the publication of wasteland
that TSE lead became a leading light in
British poetry so why did TSE lead right wasteland
wasteland
he wrote it after the first world war
when he saw corruption and degradation
of human beings so Westland is divided
into five sections the burial of the
dead the game of chess the fires are
more death by water and what the Thunder
said so it is a very important poem
whether you're pursuing your masters in
English or whether you are like
preparing for you juicing it this is one
point you really need to study well in
this video we are going to talk about
each section of wasteland in detail so
please subscribe to my channel and watch
the video till the end so the first line
of Wasteland
is April is the cruelest month of the
year it completely reverses the myth
that Christians believe that April is a
very holy month because generally
Christians associate April with Easter
and resurrection of Christ so you can
remember the Java Chaucer wrote in can
you bear eating it's April is a
sweetness month of the year so Elliot
alludes to Canterbury Tales and right
April is the cruelest month of the year
and that's how the point where slack
begins so Elliot is trying to show what
that from the age of Chaucer to the
modern age the kind of corruption and
degradation in human beings that has
occurred so with this very first line he
tries to show that so wasteland is a
series of fragmentary monologues like
various figures you can find various
characters in baseline and all of them
are telling something to us we can see
so many in
so it is a series of fragmentary
monologues and TS Eliot is consistently
referring to all the works that he likes
so there are allusions to Shakespeare's
works there are allusion to Thomas
Middleton's play and plenty of illusions
which we'll come to later
so in burial of the dead you can find
plenty of characters such as countess
Mary who feels free in the mountains
then we have son of man essica the
Jewish prophet who was sent to preach
the Word of God then we have Hikind girl
next we have Madame so sorceries the
famous clairvoyant who wants her client
to protect himself from death by water
which is the fourth section of wasteland
so in the last paragraph of the burial
of the dead we see Eliot is calling
London and unreal City now weinerman is
called an unreal city because he let us
say a crowd of people
mechanically going to work they are so
spiritually barren they have no
consciousness therefore he is calling it
an unreal City and this untrue City need
not be only London it can be any place
on earth where corruption degradation
and spiritual Berenice can be seen
so in the last section of burial of the
dead last paragraph of burial of the dead
dead
Elia calls out the speaker calls her to
person called Stetson who was with him
in a battle battle of Mary but it is a
reference to the first one word and he
asked him a very poignant question which
shows the futility of world war the
futility of any work and he asked that
the corpse that you planted in your
garden has it started blooming will it
bloom next year so what this line shows
this shows the utter futility of war
no one can gain anything in the war so
that's what I eat is trying to show in
burial of the dead now let's look at the
second section of the wasteland which is
the game of chess the name is taken
Thomas Middleton's flee the game rather
son and wondered ealier choose this
title the game of chess because
according to Eliot the relationship
between man and woman in the modern
world it's like a game of chess it was
like the moves and countermoves in a
game of chess where man and woman are
trying to overcome each other
so in this section ile it gives us two
contrasting scenes in the first thing we
find an upper-class woman sitting in her
dressing room waiting for her lover so
Elia gives a description of the room
where she is sitting and while doing so
he alludes to Shakespeare's Antony and
Cleopatra Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's
metamorphoses so there is a painting of
Philomena who was raped brutally by King
Darius in Ovid's metamorphoses and then
she was transformed into a knight Ingle
by the gods who took pity on her
so by referring to this incident elite
is trying to show the status of women
women have always been victims in the
male-dominated world then elite shifts
to the scene and we see that the woman
who is waiting is a seductress so her
lover joins her and then she starts
talking to her lover and it is a
one-sided conversation she is in a very
nervous mood and she wants her lover to
engage in a frivolous conversation just
to entertain her so we find that there
is no connection between the man and the
woman the woman is talking on her own
and the man is thinking about death
there is zero connection in the next
scene we are taken to a pub of post-war
London but to low class woman and
talking about their family's immediate
status so there is a corrector Cornell
who is upset that her husband Albert
will be coming home
Albert is a soldier will be coming home
after war heart so called friend tells
her that why she is not taking care of
her appearances and getting a pair of
dentures because if she is not able to enter
enter
her husband then almond is going to look
for pleasure elsewhere the friend also
rebukes Lin that how she looks so old
and unattractive at the age of 31 too
much lip says that she's on abortion
pills which are having a side effect on
her body the friend doesn't sympathize
with Lily so here we can see how shallow
human connections human friendships have
become so finally all the woman in the
pub leave it's the closing time of the
pub and their elite uses the aleutian of
Hamlet he uses the last scene of
aphelion but o philia is saying goodbye
to everyone before killing herself
the third section of the wasteland is
the file so on and it is a longer
section of the poem the title is taken
from Gotham woods house fires arm on
someone which he gave to his disciples
the first paragraph in this section
shows us a picture of rebirth hymns in
autumn and Eliot alludes to Edmund
Spenser's poem throatily nian where
Spencer said sweet Thames run softly
chiller in my song and an immediate next
paragraph we see a contrasting picture
of River Thames an ugly picture with
slimy rats around its back
this contrast is shown so that we can
understand the degradation and
corruption in the mortal world and in
this context eel its alludes to the
Fisher King mid and to Ferdinand of
Tempest then we come across a very
important character Tiresias
a prophet of ancient Greece who foresees
the future and through whose eyes we see
an incident at the time of sunset
sailors returned to whom and a typist
also returns home after her daily work
and she prepares dinner and then her lover
lover
visits her o'clock who is overconfident
and the clerk tries to arouse her by
caring her but she's not at all
responsive finally he's irritated and he
assaults her
without any resistance from her side
then he leaves mechanically the diapers
does not even recognize that luck has
left and when she recognized she's glad
that things are over and she starts
listening to music on gramophone this
incident is used by Elliot to produce a
satanic effect to show the shallowness
to show this frivolousness of
relationships to show there is no real
emotion involved then Allah talks about
Queen Elizabeth one and her Minister all
of like Esther who went on a boating
excursion by mentioning this incident he
also hints at the love affair between
Queen Elizabeth one and all of ligustrum
finally at the end of the section the
fire so on there is a reference to send
Augustine both buta and st. Augustine
considered sensual temptation as burning
fire the fourth section dead by Watteau
is a shorter section in the wasteland as
warned and predicted by madame source or
strings in the first section of the
Westland flippers the Phoenicians has
died by drowning he let's say is that as
flippers has already died it is futile
to think about the cry of the seagulls
or the movement of the sea when he was dying
dying
it is also futile to think about profit
and loss which were his everyday
business when he was alive by mentioning
this incident Elliot tells mankind to
think of the old mortality Elliot says
that fleebus was once handsome and tall
but he died by drowning
similarly mankind where the Jew or
Christian or belonging to any other
religion should think of their mortality
so that they can live a meaningful life
which is not spiritually faded
finally we come to the last and final
section of the wasteland what the
Thunder sweet the first paragraph
of this section recalls the events from
Judas betrayal and Christ's arrest to
the time of its crucification so there
are plenty of biblical allusions in this
section a thought or knowledge of Bible
will really help you in understand in
this section then the poet takes us to
an e-rate waterless Rock region a
wasteland where there is no hope for
life and regeneration the God forsaken
land can only be transformed in their
water somewhere but there is no water
the clouds are thundering but they are
brainless thunder there is no hope for
him then the poet takes us to another
scene he thinks of the river Ganga and
its land India as the lifeless leaves of
the tree near the bank of river Ganga a
Wittering the clouds gather over the
Himalayas and it thunders and what the
time to sate the time deceit data diadem
Damietta that Tom means to give day Adam
means to be compassionate Don with a
means to exercise self-control
it is a three-fold advice given by the
Thunder or given by the gods showing way
for redemption if one follows the
threefold advice of giving to the needy
being compassionate and exercising
self-control one can find peace even in
this modern world then Elliott uses the
aleutian London Bridge is falling down
the widest Elia six London Bridge is
falling down because if human beings
fail to follow the threefold advice of
da da da da da Matta then nothing can
stop human beings from seeing the
disintegration of civilization the
degradation of human beings nothing can save
save
it is an apocalyptic vision where towels
are falling down
finally the poem ends with the
reputation of the sanskrit word for peace
peace
shanthi shanthi shanthi by saying these
three words idiot longs for peace and
enlightenment it's a prayer that God
save humanity save this world so that's
it about wasteland I hope you liked the
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