Imperialism in The Waste Land
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| − | (This article is a work in progress, seeking to examine the significance of space in ''The Waste Land'', especially in regards to imperialism and the regeneration of the British Empire and/or Europe as a whole.) | + | '''(This article is a work in progress, seeking to examine the significance of space in ''The Waste Land'', especially in regards to imperialism and the regeneration of the British Empire and/or Europe as a whole.)''' |
What has really caught my eye in this project is the scope of the map, the distances. While a good deal of The Waste Land takes place in a fairly concentrated area of London, the poem actually has quite a scope, reaching into northern Africa, all over Europe, and into the western skirts of Asia. Most interestingly of all, though, is the fact that the final stanzas of the poem take place far removed from the rest of the points, in India. Dealing with a poem about sterility and a dead generation nested among corpses, the shift towards a sort of eastern religious or philosophical serenity seems very much like a reinfusion of life, a breath of fresh air, a revival. | What has really caught my eye in this project is the scope of the map, the distances. While a good deal of The Waste Land takes place in a fairly concentrated area of London, the poem actually has quite a scope, reaching into northern Africa, all over Europe, and into the western skirts of Asia. Most interestingly of all, though, is the fact that the final stanzas of the poem take place far removed from the rest of the points, in India. Dealing with a poem about sterility and a dead generation nested among corpses, the shift towards a sort of eastern religious or philosophical serenity seems very much like a reinfusion of life, a breath of fresh air, a revival. | ||
