Ellipsis In The Wasteland

blanks. The reader will take interest and will try to develop his own meaning from that particular text. We can say that it is a pause or an unfinished thought of the writer that is to be completed by the reader. Ellipsis can appear at the beginning, middle or at the end of the sentences and can be in informal writing as well as in quoted material.

Now moving towards T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” we can see that ellipsis are used in different places, in order to analyze them we shall take one stanza or two from each part of this poem. Starting from the first part that is “The Burial of the Dead”(lines 60-76). Here we can see that ellipsis appear in the very last line of this stanza “You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!”(line 76).

Onomatopoeia in waste land can be observed at various points. In the third section “the fire sermon” line 203-204: “tit twit twit/ Jug jug jug jug jug jug” can be anlysed. These words are song of Phliomela who turned into a nightingale. These onomatopoeias look ugly and meaningless. But they show that the actions of modern man are incomprehensible. These lines might also show modern world is a polluted place and it is not for the the beatiful song of nightingale. So these meaningless sounds have a meaningful

Fidelity to the original is primary. A literal quotation remains firmly embedded in its original source, distinct and easily separable from its new setting. That is, it travels in only one direction: backward. In contrast, the literary quotational allusion points both backward and forward." (Stacy Magedanz, 2006)

A way that in simplistic terms is called upon to refer to another text indirectly is called allusion. In defining allusion, J.A. Cuddon remarks:

"Usually an implicit reference, perhaps to another work of literature or art, to a person, or an event. It is often a kind of appeal to a reader to share some experience with the writer. An allusion may enrich the work by association and give it depth. When using allusions a writer tends to assume an established literary tradition, a common body of knowledge with an audience sharing that tradition ..." (J.A.