EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Waste Land, Intertextuality, Erectile Dysfunction
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Lyric poetry: modernism, allusion, epigraph, review, annotation, source, fragmentation, persona, double-voicing, theme, world war i, prophet, grail quest, fisher king, apocalypse, symbol, myth, primitivism, the dying god, frazer, weston. Fragmentation and modernity: early 20th century response to social, political and technological changes, urban expansion, urban destiny, urban poverty alienation from traditional life on the land, political states breaking up russian revolution, break up austro- Western culture against the threat of the masses: many english and american writers fit in here, including ezra pound, w. b. Eliot and modernity: eliot is an american living in london, attracted by european and english culture, born in st. louis his family. But it is a lyric poem: lyric poetry represents a mind in the process of thought, not a story: there are recurrent interconnecting themes and ideas, water symbolism is something that unites all parts.
