ENGL 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Waste Land, Mike Goldberg, Larry Rivers
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10/13 reread the wasteland and richard wright almost a man and half of invisible man . Modernists are interested in creating art that reflects how the world is: world doesn"t make sense, not familiar, war, death, alienated from their old world. Early life: attended harvard undergrad and post grad, moved to britain and remained there his whole life. Literary life: published the criterion , close friends with ezra pounds. The waste land: difficult, high degree of intertexuality including many references to history, literature, myth, and religious belief. Created footnotes because he was forced to for the lower classes. Made the footnotes difficult to read on purpose: general interests of the poem. Elliot is interested in the idea of death and the uncertain possibility of rebirth referencing various myths about death and renewal-- particularly the myth of the grail quest and the. Father king: april is the most cruel month, the barrenness of modern culture.
