The Wasteland Modernism Analysis

Modernism in literature showed up toward the end of the nineteenth century, and the start of the twentieth century. It was a counter move against traditionalism in poetry, and modernist novelist and poets explored different avenues regarding the poem style. New strategies were imposed, for example, ‘fragmenting’ the poem, reconstructing and restructrung of language, use of allusions, and of the free verse.
Poems are composed from personal experiences, expressing the poet’s concerns about humans’ purpose of existence and urging readers to grasp their different points of view. T.S Elliot's The Waste Land, Preludes and The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, are examples of modernist poetry through which the poet intends to mirror the feeling of disillusionment and incapability they felt as the repulsions of World War I mounted. While poets like Wilfred Owen, rejects the possibility of heroism in wars that had been made by these Romanticist writers, through the confrontational images of its damaging impacts on war soldiers. Similarly, Eliot conveys his concerns by examining one's feeling of futility and meaningless in society through the persona of a nihilist J. Alfred Prufrock, reflecting the modern man’s failed expectation with nineteenth- century values.
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The Wasteland is a call for rejuvenation, for the revival of the modern world. Each poems four fragments, consider a different point, a different theme, however the one section may be more significant to familiarising the readers with Eliot's aims and viewpoint in the main, The Burial of the Dead. A cautious examination of The Burial of the Dead exposes that through various references to war myths and different sources, Eliot creates fertility out of sterility as these sections unifying