Barthian.org
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asisaid by Timothy R. Butler
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Excerpted from the website:
- OK, so I’m going to give Mike the full 20 points on Eliot; he didn’t get the title, but he did get some of the background. The quote is the beginning of “the Wasteland,” a poem made up of five smaller poems. The first poem, the one quoted, is “the Burial of the Dead.” Eliot wrote “the Wasteland” in the early twenties, in response partially to the collective societal shock and breakdown after World War I, and also his own personal nervous breakdown that brought him to Switzerland to recuperate.
