ENGA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Siegfried Sassoon, The Waste Land, Free Indirect Speech
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Hearing the past: joyce"s counterparts and the dead . Things are going to slide, slide in all directionsthe blizzard, the vlizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul . Modern self is a hungry self that only experiences through consumption: designed in opposition to other myths. Delusion of the myth of progress allowed people not to see the end result of. Yeats wrote second coming in after math of ww1 wars. Ww1 = total war , war of attrition war would only end when the entire army of one side was diminished. Factories back home turned to building more and more weapons. War only was supposed to last a few months but ended up being a 4 year carnage. Calls out for men back home to come out and join war a bit of patriotism. Shell shock was another huge problem: power of explosive actually caused brain damage.
