Question

Choose the statement related to The waste landers in the poem The Waste land

• A. morally depraved and spiritually dead and they are not prepared for any striving
• B. consumed by physical labor and fatigue
• C. optimistic about future spiritual rebirth
• D. devoted to artistic and creative pursuits

Answer 1

Answer:

A. morally depraved and spiritually dead and they are not prepared for any striving

• The Waste land is famous poem by eminent poet T.S Eliot.

• Published in 1922,.

• The poem is divided into five sections.

• The first, "The Burial of the Dead", introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair.

• The second, "A Game of Chess", employs alternating narrations in which vignettes of several characters display the fundamental emptiness of their lives.

• "The Fire Sermon" offers a philosophical meditation in relation to self-denial and sexual dissatisfaction.

• "Death by Water" is a brief description of a drowned merchant.

• "What the Thunder Said" is a culmination of the poem's previously exposited themes explored through a description of a desert journey.