Please do not plagarize. If you need any help let me know. The paper prompt is below and attached to the uploaded files.
Paper on The Waste Land—ENGL 3341
Choose one of the sections below from The Waste Land and write about how it contributes to the
whole. Focus your comments on the section you choose; offer close readings of both content and of the
way the poem is arranged formally.
By formally, I am directing you to the following: does it rhyme? Is it metrical? Does it seem to move in
and out of moods, tones, voices? Is it allusive? To what? How does it use its allusions?
I have divided the poem, below, into Eliot’s named sections (in square parentheses) for convenience.
They may help you make sense of your section. Other things to consider: the social class of the
characters described, if there are any in your passage; the relationship between the passage and the
theme of cultural, civilizational sterility and spiritual death; the hope for spiritual renewal; the
apocalyptic upheavals that Eliot envisions preceding the concluding invocation of peace (Shantih,
shantih, shantih)
[1. The Burial of the Dead]
Marie (Broadview 451, through line 19)
General speaker (452, lines 20-42)
Someone (who? The general speaker?) describing Madame Sosostris, the tarot card reader (452, 43-59)
Someone (who? General speaker?) describing the crowd flowing over London Bridge (453, lines 60-76)
[2. A Game of Chess]
General speaker? Specific man? describing a woman at her dressing table, and then having a
conversation with her—sort of . . . (lines 77-135)
Working-class woman at London pub (139-172)
[3. The Fire Sermon]
General speaker (173-202—or perhaps you want to include everything up to 206, or even 214: you
decide)
General speaker/Tiresias describing the encounter between the typist and the “young man carbuncular”
(215-255)
General speaker closing out Part 3 (“The Fire Sermon”) with a combination of references to literary
texts, Wagnerian opera, and other cultural scraps, refashioned into bits of modern London life—281-
310)
[4. Death By Water]
General speaker discussing Phlebas the Phoenician (312-321)
[5. What the Thunder Said]
You can divide this part up any way you see fit, because the whole thing seems to be the words of the
general speaker.
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