The WasteLand

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Yeats

 

Virginia Woolf

T.S. Eliot

 

 

Williams

 

The Modernist Cult of Ugliness

Pater, evocative when theorizing a contingent and mobile subjectivity as that "continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual, weaving and unweaving of ourselves." yet Pater's canon as a whole privledges three other interconnected metaphors, two architectural and one geometrical, to render "the narrow world of thought and feeling" (TR 187) in terms of isolation and imprisonment. When "the narrow chamber of the individual mind" is proobed, one learns that, "Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of pesonality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. Every one of those impressions is the impression of the individual in his islation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world."

The WasteLand.