Photograph: Matthew AndrewsĪnyone wanting dry textual analysis should look elsewhere: there is not a single straightforward reading of the poem on offer. Unreal city: Ruby Philogene prepares to sing Wagner in St Vedast alias Foster Church. The title, fittingly enough, is Fragments. To mark The Waste Land’s 100th birthday – it actually first appeared in October 1922, but a little poetic licence seems justified – a six-day festival will take over the City of London, filling 22 churches with responses to Eliot’s poem and its afterlife. This April, audiences will have an opportunity to consider such questions afresh, perhaps even come up with some answers. How to crack the codes of its influences and multiplying footnotes? Are sections of it autobiographical, drawing on the poet’s nervous breakdown and volatile marriage? Why do the poem’s opening lines decree that April, with all its lush promise of spring and renewal, is the “cruellest” of months? Is it genuinely one of the greatest works in the language, or – as the poet once claimed – just “a piece of rhythmical grumbling”? Paperback (December 21st, 2010): $14.O f all modernist works of literature, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is one of the hardest to piece together – as countless disconsolate English students have realised.Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was recognized as a major force in the literary world with his publication of The Waste Land in 1922.
Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. (Thomas Stearns) ELIOT (1888-1965) was born and raised in St.
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