The Waste Land - Meaning/Hermeneutics 4.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureMeaning & HermeneuticsUniversityNone Created by: emmythenotsogreat2014Created on: 03-01-14 15:02 The opening lines.. More general accessible than openings of Eliot's earlier poems 1 of 14 Spring the invocation of spring is broadly universal and cultural 2 of 14 Invokes legend Invokes legendary England as the Arthurian quest 3 of 14 Language & Limits conspicuously lacks the features of language which limit and define meanings 4 of 14 Claustrophobic Heteroglossia we don't identify with one character, but feel as though we are trapped in a crowd 5 of 14 Collectively Damaged Psyche Humanity's collectively damaged psyche prevented people from communicating 6 of 14 Tiresias & Wholeness Tiresias theoretically embodies wholeness 7 of 14 T.S. Eliot and Hermeneutics Harriet Davidson 8 of 14 Waste & its Opposite To waste also suggests the opposite of its adjectival form 9 of 14 Plentitude Beyond Consumption The poem is wasteful in excess 10 of 14 The Poem Suggests Too Much any attempt to define wastes other potential meanings 11 of 14 Deferral of Meaning Continual deferral of the origin of meaning 12 of 14 T.S. Eliot, Knowledge and Experience "Any assertion about the world will inevitably be an interpretation" 13 of 14 Priviledge No one thing seems privileged in the world as a central meaning 14 of 14
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