Talk:Walking the Waste Land
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* Imperialism. Good or bad? Eliot seems to advocate it because it will draw in new life that the British empire seems to have lost. Does this sound crazy? | * Imperialism. Good or bad? Eliot seems to advocate it because it will draw in new life that the British empire seems to have lost. Does this sound crazy? | ||
(Rebekah 11/28/2012 3:15) | (Rebekah 11/28/2012 3:15) | ||
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| + | So, a focus on imperialism. While the map features a heavy clustering of locations in Britain proper (mostly within London), it is actually fairly spread out. There seems to be a conscious effort made to draw in influences from elsewhere for some of the richest imagery. Imperialism, then, as less a destructive obsession with expansion and dominance, but as an attempt to find new life for civilization elsewhere... (Rebekah 12/03/2012 9:05am) | ||
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| + | That the ending of the poem focuses not on the English world as we know it best, but rather on the east, on new ideas, on a sort of eastern blessing, is quite telling of where the poem has led, what it is implying. (Rebekah 12/03/2012 9:07am) | ||
