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Considering that ''The Waste Land'' is full of allusions, references, and direct quotations taken from a wide variety of poems, operas, songs, and stories, it seems fitting to look at the works of poets and songwriters proceeding Eliot who have applied Eliot's "Allusionist" techniques to their own writing through incorporating elements of ''The Waste Land'' into their works (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-galenson/ts-eliot-john-lennon-and_b_3676744.html). | Considering that ''The Waste Land'' is full of allusions, references, and direct quotations taken from a wide variety of poems, operas, songs, and stories, it seems fitting to look at the works of poets and songwriters proceeding Eliot who have applied Eliot's "Allusionist" techniques to their own writing through incorporating elements of ''The Waste Land'' into their works (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-galenson/ts-eliot-john-lennon-and_b_3676744.html). | ||
| − | ''Wilfred Owen'' | + | '''Wilfred Owen''' |
| − | Owen was a poet contemporary to Eliot, also writing WWI thematic poetry such as his poem | + | |
| + | 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 | ||
Gently its touch awoke him once, | Gently its touch awoke him once, | ||
