The Waste Land Absence & Connections 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureAbsence & ConnectionsUniversityNone Created by: emmythenotsogreat2014Created on: 03-01-14 14:58 Stabilising force a world defined by the absence of a central stabilising force; logic, God, empirical certainty 1 of 15 Centre and Order Without a centre, the world has no order 2 of 15 The situation... is one of 'being-in-the-world' 3 of 15 Absense of Essence in the absence of essence, self & world define each other diacritically 4 of 15 Begins with Paradox... most basic to human experience - the interdependence of life & death 5 of 15 'Heap of Broken Images' rather than understood as a whole 6 of 15 Ends in.. ultimate resignation - 'shantih, shantih, shantih' 7 of 15 Shantih Shantih Shantih = the peace that passeth understanding 8 of 15 Absence & Connections makes the reader experience the absence of expected connections 9 of 15 Absence of Consciousness Does not have a controlling consciousness - the absence is a powerful and disturbing one 10 of 15 Tiresias & Consciousness immortal man/woman; his consciousness unlike anything we could know 11 of 15 Graham Heugh Tiresias functions not as a single human consciousness, but as a mythological catch-all - a unifying factor of no effect 12 of 15 Ezra Pound the poem is an 'emotional unit' 13 of 15 Nostalgia makes it impossible due to the blending of past and present 14 of 15 Poet Absorbed in Object It is the cultural world that speaks, not a persona 15 of 15
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