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Study Guide … is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning supplying the most important information about the literary works and so fostering their comprehension.
The first part of the Study Guide about The Waste Land includes the historical, social and literary background of the period in which the poem was written, and some biographical notes about the author, Thomas Sterne Eliot. The second part focuses on the work and deals with sources, setting, characters, commentary, critical approach, possible adaptations for theatre, cinema or television and further notes.
The first part of the Study Guide about The Waste Land includes the historical, social and literary background of the period in which the poem was written, and some biographical notes about the author, Thomas Sterne Eliot. The second part focuses on the work and deals with sources, setting, characters, commentary, critical approach, possible adaptations for theatre, cinema or television and further notes.
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The 20th century
historical and literary background
The years immediately after the Great War witnessed a general atmosphere of unrest in England. In most respect the war emphasized aspects of the society that were already changing: emancipation of women, general organisation of labour, a more democratic policy. On the other hand, English people experienced unemployment, galloping inflation, severe house-shortage and depression in particular in the areas of the North where heavy industries were concentrated. The experience of the war was crucial for the intellectuals of the period that perceived the alteration of their sources of identity. They turned their back upon the physical world trying to communicate spiritual realities. The most influential voices were the ones of. William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound and T.homas Stern Eliot that in The Waste Land evoked the dryness of modern civilization by means of symbolic images in a manner of a collage of erudite references to myths and literary works.
The Age of Anxiety
Auden’s book The Age of Anxiety opens with an unforgettable evocation of the horrors of war: the First World War with its mass slaughter and the Second World War with concentration camps and Hiroshima had left an indelible mark on modern man's soul.
Psychoanalysis was another cause of anxiety: Sigmund Freud’s investigations into the unconscious helped man know his soul better, but also shook some of his fundamental certainties, such as the distinction between the sane and the insane and the sacredness of family
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