Abstract
In her article "Eliot's The Waste Land and Surging Nationalisms" Pouneh Saeedi analyzes T.S. Eliot's poem in the context of the impact of World War I and the emergence of nationalisms. In the midst of the ruins of both his personal life and Europe, Eliot expresses the loss of a universal understanding delineated in the fragmentation of language and a disassociation of sensibility. In The Waste Land, the West and the East — represented in their respective canonical texts — commingle and cohere to present an image of oneness that goes beyond oppositional binaries and leads the egotistical self to look beyond antagonistic dichotomies and ultimately embrace a peace beyond national and linguistic boundaries.
Recommended Citation
Saeedi, Pouneh.
"Eliot's The Waste Land and Surging Nationalisms."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
13.4
(2011):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1879>
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