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Analysis Of The Waste Land: A Letter To Thomas Stearns Eliot

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Dear Mr. Thomas Stearns Eliot. I find your poem “The Waste Land” very intriguing. However I can also find it troublesome to understand and that is why I have decided to write this letter to you. I want to share my ideas with you and see if I have interpreted your poem in the best way possible. The title of your poem is “The Waste Land”. When I first started reading it I could not figure out what you meant by having that as a title. However, the second time I read the poem I had a relatively good idea of what you wanted to mediate. I believe that the title you chose indicates your attitude towards the contemporary society you live in after World War I. The sterile Waste Land was a metaphor for a Europe that had been devastated by war and …show more content…

Instead you used multiple characters that each had their own story and background to tell. To me this shows that you wanted to mediate more than one person’s thoughts and opinions and instead you chose to display multiple people and through them show what the society thought in general. However, when I continued reading I noticed that some of your characters background comes from Greek mythology. Tiresias is one of them and to me he is considered the most important one. Tiresias was cursed by the gods to live as a woman for seven years until he was turned back into a man. He has a key role in the poem and serves as a unifying figure linking the ancient and the modern world. “The Waste Land” is full of despair and disorder but you, Mr. Eliot, appear to indicate that this state will not be perpetual, even though it may seem like …show more content…

When the men went to fight in the war, women took over their jobs in the industries. A lot of women liked this change since they were now able to do something more than to sit at home and watch the kids. But when the men came back from the war they wanted their old jobs back, but since the women now had been more independent they did not want to give that opportunity away. The evolution had already begun and there was nothing that could stop it. By having Tiresias, who was both a man and a woman, in your poem did you want to portray how you and many others felt about the

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