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The Fire Sermon In The Wasteland

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Presently, a calm mood and pleasure dominates the poem as music is seen as a remedy against the despair and the melancholy. It is yet compelling to sort out who is speaking in this part. This ambiguity suits modernism and the chaotic world. "The music crept by me on the waters" is another line from The Tempest. It is supervened by the song of the Rhine-daughters in Wagner’s opera, Götterdämmerung and Das Rheingold: ' ' The river sweats/ Oil and tar / The barges drift / With the turning tide / Red sails / Wide/ To leeward, swing on the heavy spar. / The barges wash / Drifting logs / Down Greenwich reach / Past the Isle of Dogs. / Weialala leia / Wallala leialala ' ' (Rainey 110). The Rhine-daughters are nymphs who guard a lump of gold …show more content…

In conclusion, the innovative techniques of the modern poetry are introduced to the reader by Eliot in The Fire Sermon of The Wasteland. The prominent feature of his poetry is hidden in disjoint timeline, abrupt end, ironic juxtaposition of past and present, literary allussions, quotations, historical and mythological interpretations and references, the multiple voices, stream of consciousness, usage of quotations in their original language, and repetition of the lines from the previous poems. Furthermore, Eliot turns his poem into a song-like poem by strengthening it with musical pieces. The chaotic modern wasteland is created through fragmented and unrelated broken images and collage of allussions. The pastoral images are embodied as the essential vehicle of aestheticism rather than metrical pattern. These techniques are embroidered with the themes of sexuality, infertility, dehumanization of sexual discourse, absence of lust and frustration under the dark critique of modernism in terms of urbanization, materialism, capitalism, absence of spirituality, fragmentation, failure of love, isolation and alienation after WWI. Overall, the reader is confronted to the futility, vagueness and bleakness of the modern world and dragged into confusion, incomprehension and horror of the truth. Nonetheless, Eliot does not give up the optimistic view of the future as The Fisher King who heals from his

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