"The
Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot is a poem that is hard to describe because of
its grand allusions to history and its epic stories of the past. His allusions range from stories in the
Bible, Greece mythology, poems, and tales from different eras of time. It splits and fragments each of the allusions
and scatters them throughout the poem to make an obscure story that is
confusing but almost angelic and prophetic at the same time. Eliot takes these great pieces of literature
and transports the reader to that time by using the languages to connect figures, words, voice, culture, and
time. The tone is set throughout the
story from the very first sentences. Irony
runs throughout "The Waste Land" When Eliot uses Petronius,
Satyricon, which almost sound like the word "Satirical."
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