1. The Work Of A Great American Poet - Robert Lowell
Assignment Discuss how this passage presents the decline of humanity and spirituality, to an infertile and banal existence in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." ... In this opening section, Eliot alludes to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, where 'April with his showres soote/ The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'. This description starkly contrasts with Eliot's pessimism; by taking these images of rebirth and abundance and opposing their sanguinity, Eliot is able to portray a drastically incongruent view of this change in a dark and ominous tone. ... The ...