Post-War Poetry
The Impact of the First World War in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and Hope Mirrlees’s Paris
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.11.181Keywords:
The Waste Land, Paris, Eliot, Mirleess, ModernismAbstract
The modernist poems “The Waste Land” (1922) and Paris (1919) both respond in oblique ways to the aftermath of the First World War, featuring prominent images of both death and societal decline as well as new growth and restoration. Through close readings which place these two texts within the post-war context and the poetic and literary responses of this period, I examine the ways in which T. S. Eliot and Hope Mirrlees combine emotional and societal responses to the First World War with wider conceptions of civilisation, myth, folklore and cultural history.
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