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==Pieces of Work Influenced By Eliot and The Waste Land== | ==Pieces of Work Influenced By Eliot and The Waste Land== | ||
| − | '''Wilfred Owen''' | + | '''Wilfred Owen''' [[Image:Wilfred_Owens.jpg]] |
Owen was a poet contemporary to Eliot, also writing WWI thematic poetry such as his poem [http://www.englishverse.com/poems/futility Futlity] which speaks of the war dead and futile attempts to wake them from their final slumber, as well as representing the destructive effects the war had on the land. ''The Waste Land'' has a continuous theme of futility and desolation in Europe following the war. | Owen was a poet contemporary to Eliot, also writing WWI thematic poetry such as his poem [http://www.englishverse.com/poems/futility Futlity] which speaks of the war dead and futile attempts to wake them from their final slumber, as well as representing the destructive effects the war had on the land. ''The Waste Land'' has a continuous theme of futility and desolation in Europe following the war. | ||
| − | Lines from "Futility" stating that "If anything might rouse him now / The kind old sun will know" are reminiscent of pieces of [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176735 The Waste Land] | + | Lines from "Futility" stating that "If anything might rouse him now / The kind old sun will know" are reminiscent of pieces of ''[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176735 The Waste Land]'' |
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Gently its touch awoke him once, | Gently its touch awoke him once, | ||
