The Waste Land: A Critical Study

agony artistic beauty become birth broken Christ Christian complex contemporary contrast critical dance Dante Dante's dark dead death and re-birth decay described diction discipline drowned emotional emphasized experiences external eyes Ezra Pound fear feelings fertility fire Fisher King followed Four Quartets fragments Gerontion Grail heart hollow men human I. A. Richards idea imagery images journey lady later poetry light lines literature living London London bridge lust meaning meaningless memory mental mind modern wasteland moving myth nature nightingale once passage passionate past pattern picture poem poet poet's poetic present protagonist purgatory refers remark reminded rhythm rock scene sense sexual shuttles weave significance singing society song sordid soul sound of water spiritual spring suffering Sweeney symbol symbolists T. E. Hulme T. S. Eliot technique theme thought Tiresias typist unreal city verse voices W. B. Yeats Waste Land wisdom woman women words