T. S. Eliot\'s techniques: the mythical method, free association of ideas and thoughts, shifts in time and space PDF

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T. S. Eliot's techniques: the mythical method, free association of ideas and thoughts, shifts in time and space...

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T. S. Eliot’s techniques The mythical method  The Waste land is full of references to legends A myth is something fitticious and myths from global cultures  the Authorian and nobody pretends it is true, it legends, The Legend of the Holy Grail and also the is the result of a culture, a rites of fertility  the character of the Waste Land cultural product through which people expresses its deeper is Tyresias and he is a greek character, a blind man perceptions as for the meaning of that is both man and woman and is so very old. existence, the adventure of life   The ideo of “classicism” that for Eliot is the the myth is much more sensire ability to see the past as a concrete premise for the for Eliot than the illusion (typical present. pattern of the Western tradition in  The unity of the poetic culture in different novel) periods and different parts of the world. Eliot and Joyce refuse to present  Eliot uses myths rather than a story with a in their works a world where narration that is cronological because of a new everything will be solved, a world conception of history ↴ that is completley understandable and a worls where there are no Like Nietzsche he believes that history is the repetion of the same events and it is useless to speak about progress because it is not progress but, as WWI demonstrated, history is the repetition of the same errors ↴ To give your “work of art” an historical and cronological pattern is something that would illude/delude people that there is a progress and we have to be optimistic  This is why Eliot employes mythical method and he speaks about this in his essay “Ulysses, Order and Myth” (1923): “The myth is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history”  it is a structure or a shape that give order to aspects of the contemporary life ↴ The reader should not be conviced as it is when we read “Oliver Twist”  Both the Waste Land and Ulysses have something in common: the use of mythical method Free association of ideas and thoughts  Is a technique used by T. S. Eliot in his poems and by Ulysses in James Joyce Shifts in time and space  Is something that happens in our minds because there is not past, present and future, so we do not reason cronologically, but we continuously shift both in T. S. Eliot’s works and Joyce’s work...