Eliot's Analysis of The Waste Land

Violette is the founder of the new criticism, and his literary views have become the new orthodoxy in the university literature forum. He believes that the writer's emotional experience must first go through an impersonal process, that is, transforming personal feelings into universal and artistic feelings before entering the works. Poets don't need to think independently, just need to test ready-made ideas. He said: "Poetry is not to indulge feelings, but to escape feelings. Poetry is not to express individuality, but to escape individuality. " He adopts the creative method of "objective counterpart", that is, taking objective things, backgrounds and events as "counterparts" of personal special emotions, using external things and backgrounds to indirectly imply emotions with images and images to avoid naked disclosure. This is essentially a symbolic means to create literary and artistic effects.