The Waste Land Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Important Question Answers of The Waste Land and Others Poems by T.S. Eliot

  2. Attempt a critical appreciation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a pioneer example of modern poetry. Explain. How does The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock represent a complete break with the 19th century tradition of  poetry? 
  3. Discuss T.S. Eliot as a modern poet. 'Eliot discarded the decadence of romantic tradition and looked up to realism as the raw material of his poems,' Comment.
  4. Bring out the chief allusions in the third movement of The Waste Land and their significance. Discuss the allusive technique of Eliot with reference to the 'The Fire Sermon' in The Waste Land.
  5. How does Eliot employ irony and satire in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? Illustrate from the poem. Discuss the ironic effects in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and examine critically the elements in it.
  6. What does Eliot owe to oriental thought in The Waste Land? Explain critically those images which Eliot has used to present contemporary life in The Waste Land.
  7. 'Tiresias provides unity to the poem'. How far is this statement correct? Do you agree with the view-"What Tiresias sees is the substance of the whole poem" ? Examine the significance of Tiresias in The Waste Land. 
  8. The structure of The Waste Land, is not progressive but circular'. Justify this statement. Would The Waste Land have gained in stature if it had been written as poetry direct not as 'Poetry oblique' ?
  9. The Waste Land is a sigh for the vanished glory of past. Discuss this statement briefly. The Poem The Waste Land is an 'Expression of the Disillusionment of a Generation'. Elucidate. In The Waste Land Eliot mourns the death of Europe. Comment.
  10. The Waste Land is not a collection of fragments for every part of it is connected with the others, not in conventional way, but by means of a complicated system of echoes, contrasts, parallels and allusions. Elucidate. What are the technical devices used by the poet to impart unity to the poem?
  11. Discuss Eliot's use of symbols and imagery by the technique of Poetic Shorthand. Critically assess the technique of Poetic Shorthand used by Eliot, supported by illustrations from The Waste Land.
  12. Discuss and illustrate that Gerontion conveys the rootlessness and disintegration of the modern mind. "Gerontion is an inadequate character haunted by a sense of his impotence and the banality of his life." How far is this statement correct? Elucidate.