English 1022E Lecture : English 1022 Lecture on "The Wasteland"

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Second lecture on t. s eliot"s the wasteland march 10, 2011. Dante; suggestion is that the typist and the young man are among the lowest inhabitants of the wasteland. Tarisius is a detached observer, someone with knowledge of the past, present and future. He is blind but capable of insight because of this gift from job. He can see the deep structures that are operating here, operating beneath the surface. This links us to another modernist impulse which we"ve seen in freud: the idea that all people have the. All literature fits into the same patterns we saw with northrop frye. That the fisher king is a universal figure. All places have the same kind of myths. Yes, but let"s step back from that . Tarisius experienced the sex life of a woman and a man, but at the end of the day he"s still a man although it claims that he has a double perspective.

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