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Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Creator:

Summers, Stephen James

Abstract:

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...

Resource Type:

Honors College Thesis

Full Text:

, from Dante and Chaucer to Whitman and F. H. Bradley. The poet will also draw from religious