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Penguin's choice to use Bruegel's painting for its ''Waste Land'' cover reveals an editorial perception that death and iconography are perhaps the most essential aspects of the poem. Bruegel's painting depicts a battle in which death, personified as a militia of skeletons, overwhelms a force of men. The Triumph of Death was painted more than three hundred years before Eliot wrote The Waste Land, well before the introduction of abstraction in the field of visual art. Whereas Delaunay paints a single image from a variety of different perspectives, Bruegel paints a single scene; nevertheless, Bruegel also challenge the viewer's experience by creating several different scenes within his single panel. The viewer is challenged to consider several different images, or "perspectives" at once. | Penguin's choice to use Bruegel's painting for its ''Waste Land'' cover reveals an editorial perception that death and iconography are perhaps the most essential aspects of the poem. Bruegel's painting depicts a battle in which death, personified as a militia of skeletons, overwhelms a force of men. The Triumph of Death was painted more than three hundred years before Eliot wrote The Waste Land, well before the introduction of abstraction in the field of visual art. Whereas Delaunay paints a single image from a variety of different perspectives, Bruegel paints a single scene; nevertheless, Bruegel also challenge the viewer's experience by creating several different scenes within his single panel. The viewer is challenged to consider several different images, or "perspectives" at once. | ||
| − | Therefore, Bruegel unashamedly transports the viewer of the painting into a world of chaos and terror, evoking more violent reactions of disgust and hopelessness. Rather than allowing the reader to enter the world of ''The Waste Land'' on gradual terms, the editor thrusts the reader into the thick of the poem's least palatable material. The imagery is reticent of lines further buried within the text of the poem | + | Therefore, Bruegel unashamedly transports the viewer of the painting into a world of chaos and terror, evoking more violent reactions of disgust and hopelessness. Rather than allowing the reader to enter the world of ''The Waste Land'' on gradual terms, the editor thrusts the reader into the thick of the poem's least palatable material. The imagery is reticent of lines further buried within the text of the poem, "Part V:Death by Water": |
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==Why Covers Matter== | ==Why Covers Matter== | ||
