The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot - An analysis of the interaction between form and content, Língua Inglesa, Monografia - 2398

In Heidegger's conference entitled as “The Provenance of Art and the Destination of
Thought” (1967)1, he addresses the issue of the impossibility of dealing with the problems of
the arts in the modern world without bearing its sociohistorical conditions jointly. Adorno’s
speech on lyric poetry and society2 deals with the same questions in a similar fashion,
however this author devises a definition concerning lyric poetry and its sociohistorical
circumstances. In his own words: “The reference to the social must not take one outside the
limits of the work of art, but it should in fact take one even deeper inside of it.” This assertion
goes towards the purpose of this essay, which is to confront form of expression and content in
a way it become possible to perceive the sociohistorical context Mostrar todos transcribed/mimicked inside
the formal devices of a poem Ocultar

One last important thing to explain about this historical contingency is that the
pervasiveness of the theme of culture is a key to understand the poem, thematically, formally
and its relation to its present time. As Walter Benjamin explains in his Experience and
poverty that the scars left by WWI go beyond the war devastation, they rather go deep inside
the very level of human experience. Benjamin asserts that the monstrous development of the
technique, which seems to have a huge potential in terms of making money, made appear a
whole new kind of poverty. The orthodox marxists philosophers have been pointing out the
material poverty for a while, but they almost completely forgot to perceive this new model of
poverty which is completely linked to human experience. The same modern technolog Mostrar todos y
which seems to develop life brought a warfare state, and the pervasiveness of this technology
in everyday life has resulted in the absence of life as it once was, based on community and in
the sharing of group values and tradition Ocultar

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