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The video claims its own point of view on the poem even in direct defiance to Eliot's intent, saying, "It's all based on short episodes and fragmentations that represent the fall of Europe, despite the fact that T.S. Eliot himself denies this interpretation." The video continues with a quick, loose breakdown of the first section, "The Burial of the Dead," stating one-to-one correlations between given symbols and their interpretations that are, quite frankly, rather pedantic and reductive. What follows is a collection of images and clips--at times appropriately surrealist, and at others running rather close to literal depictions of the poem's subject matter. The overall impression that results is one of restriction, of right and wrong answers with nothing in between. | The video claims its own point of view on the poem even in direct defiance to Eliot's intent, saying, "It's all based on short episodes and fragmentations that represent the fall of Europe, despite the fact that T.S. Eliot himself denies this interpretation." The video continues with a quick, loose breakdown of the first section, "The Burial of the Dead," stating one-to-one correlations between given symbols and their interpretations that are, quite frankly, rather pedantic and reductive. What follows is a collection of images and clips--at times appropriately surrealist, and at others running rather close to literal depictions of the poem's subject matter. The overall impression that results is one of restriction, of right and wrong answers with nothing in between. | ||
| − | Elsewhere in the vast expanse of ''The Waste Land'' and its web, works like [http://visualandcriticalstudies.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/t-s-eliots-the-waste-land-an-infographic-by-berny-tan/ A Visual Guide to References in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land] begin to offer a broader overview of the poem in such a way as can be taken like a fragment--in a single glance. This enormous map lists out a number of different categories of references used in the poem, colour codes them, and proceeds to mark them all out in a series of coloured lines that resembles more closely a DNA assay than a piece of literature. Quantitative data on a traditionally qualitative, literary work, this guide breaks boundaries and serves as a key, a Rosetta stone, to the everyday reader. | + | Elsewhere in the vast expanse of ''The Waste Land'' and its web, works like [http://visualandcriticalstudies.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/t-s-eliots-the-waste-land-an-infographic-by-berny-tan/ A Visual Guide to References in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land], by Berny Tan of the School of Visual Arts, begin to offer a broader overview of the poem in such a way as can be taken like a fragment--in a single glance. This enormous map lists out a number of different categories of references used in the poem, colour codes them, and proceeds to mark them all out in a series of coloured lines that resembles more closely a DNA assay than a piece of literature. Quantitative data on a traditionally qualitative, literary work, this guide breaks boundaries and serves as a key, a Rosetta stone, to the everyday reader. Here, the focus is ''not'' on the interpretation--the authors use the work not to tell the reader what to read, but ''how'' to read it for himself. |
