Blake Fletcher
AP English
The Waste Land Part 1
I am having trouble understanding this first section but I will do my best.
The first section of “The Waste Land” is set up with four Vignettes. Each Vignette shows a different speaker. The first Vignette reveals a woman who claims to be German. The second vignette reveals a man and his journey into an apocalyptic waste land. The third Vignette seems to be about a man recalling things to do with a girl. The last Vignette is the most creepy. The speaker in the final section seems to be walking through a town that is full of ghosts. He gets specific about a man whome he had fought next to in a war.
The problem I have with this first section is I can’t find a connection with the different speakers. Each section even seems to have a somewhat different tone to it. This is very confusing.
The form allows many different speakers to be shown. This is probably very effective if you understand the connection between the different speakers. Other than that the different speakers gives us a lot of insite into what is happening. It seems to me like maybe this is the time after a big war while everything is down and maybe the waste land could be a old war zone.
So to sum up, The first section of “The Waste Land” is set up with four different vignettes with four different speakers. The picture this presents seems to me as four completely different things. I need your help…
Blake - this is more of a summary then a explication. Further, don't you have the notes on allusions in this section? Most of the speakers in this section are women. You missed the fortune teller. And note that the connection between speakers isn't personal - they don't know each other - but it's connected to theme. They all relate to the same theme. We'll talk about this one.
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