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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Eliot, T. S.

Eliot, T. S.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Waste Land

Introduction

The Waste Land is a landmark of poetic complexity which attempts to
represent a history of human hope and despair through those ideas which Eliot
holds to as the metaphysical basis of reality. By metaphysical, we shall
understand those fundamental truths or values which are the well-spring and
source of all human affairs, aspirations, and futilities. The axiom, or truth,
or metaphysical basis (and for Eliot these would be synonymous terms), is that
the continuing despair of mankind is the result of an inability to free the
purely ...

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