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A 7 page paper which examines the poet’s view of modernity and tradition, especially the relationship between the two, and how the poet’s stylistic innovations determine the nature and meaning of the relationship between modernity and tradition. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Western civilization moved away from the traditions and customs that had historically characterized it toward an uncertain future. The modern world was a frightening place to, and during the
1920s, literary artists paused to reflect on the rapid changes taking place and somberly speculated on what was to come. In his commentary, Modernism and Tradition: The Legacies of
Belatedness," Christopher Ames observed, "For many modernist writers, the beginning of the twentieth century was marked by a pervasive sense of endings, a perception of belatedness that was especially
acute in its literary manifestations. Like writers of many eras, modernists felt that traditional themes and techniques were inadequate to their new age; they felt the need of a new
language" (39). At the forefront of these modernist writers was T.S. Eliot, author of its signature text, "The Waste Land" (1921). In this deeply complex masterpiece, Eliot considers
modernity and tradition, and contemplates a relationship between the two, which he conveys by way of some startling stylistic innovations that bear little resemblance to tried and true poetic conventions
that had been complacently adhered to for centuries. Divided by Roman numerals into five subtitled sections, "The Waste Land" offers contrasting glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in
which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a raison detre or reason to go on living. Section I, "The Burial of the Dead,"
consists of four vignettes or narrative monologues that reveal the relationship between modernity and tradition as linked by memory - simple pleasures have been replaced by the horrors of war
and nothingness. In an elegiac tone, Eliot ponders, "A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
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