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The Design of The Waste Land (Paperback)
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The Design of The Waste Land (Paperback)
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The Design of The Waste Land offers a detailed, comprehensive
explanation of T.S. Eliot's enigmatic poem. It relates The Waste
Land to earlier and later poems by Eliot, demonstrating that the
major poems describe a continuous spiritual odyssey or quest
undertaken by the same individual, initiated by the moment of
ecstasy in the Hyacinth garden. Blistein's analysis of Eliot's
sources reveals that the protagonist's glimpse of "the heart of
light" is equivalent to drinking from the Grail, or communing with
God. The incarnate deity momentarily transforms the Hyacinth garden
into the likeness of the Edenic paradise. With the inevitable
passing of the moment of communion, the protagonist in effect is
expelled from the paradisiacal garden as mankind was from Eden. By
contrast, the familiar world appears to him a wasteland. The
protagonist seeks to drink again from the divine Source and return
again to the garden as it was when transfigured by the divine
presence. His is a quest for Grail and Homeland.
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