Joe? Is it? Eliot (1888- 1965) was born in the United States and became a British citizen. He is the greatest representative of late symbolism literature and the most influential poet and critic of western modernist literature. 1949, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature and "British King's Medal of Merit" for his contribution and pioneering role in contemporary poetry. 1955 won the Goethe Prize.
The Waste Land is a milestone in modern British and American poetry, the most representative work in symbolism literature, Eliot's famous work and the most far-reaching work.
The first chapter, Funeral of the Dead, depicts the western society as a wasteland where everything is bleak and vitality is dying. The first few words reveal the poet's deep pain, endless disappointment and sadness. In spring, everything is revived and business is full, but in the poet's pen, London, the symbol of modern civilization, is a withered wasteland. In this lifeless habitat, people are neither born nor dead. Although they are still alive, there is only disillusionment and despair in their hearts, and the world in front of them is only lust like the sea. In this suffocating reality, people are full of vulgar and humble desires, and the cloud of death hangs thick over the western world, and people die in a daze. Poets compare the real society to hell, and modern people regard it as a ghost without soul.
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