English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1530 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Waste Land: Method and Allusion
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The idea
The Waste Land draws on Frazer's The Golden Bough and the Fisher King legend, the anchor notes, and alludes to Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and even a popular song. Eliot added notes. Its fragments, quotations and languages juxtapose past and present.
In practice
Allusion and juxtaposition.
Where people slip
The notes are part of the published poem.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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