Online Discussion: Oneness of Literature
This Blog is a part of classroom activities in which students have to interpret two works one is T.S.Eliot's 'Wasteland' and another is the story ' The Joke' by Anton Chekhov.
All literatures are connected with each other; all, those which are already written, those yet to be written. Thus, to understand a work of art, one must have an understanding of this continuity. This means that a writer makes use of one sign, symbol, character, situation is used by other writers, and if this goes on recurrently happen it turns into literary metaphor.
“Every organized body of knowledge can be learned progressively; and experience shows that there is also something progressive about the learning of literature.” - Northrop Frye
Theory of Archetypal criticism based on the idea that whole literature has oneness of it’s existence. All literature shares common DNA or Skeleton.
These lines from The Waste Land can better be understood if we read it in the context of short story of AntonChekhov (A Joke).
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
Interpretation of lines:--
An ordinary reader can't understand hidden meanings of these lines beacause of esoteric chracteristics of poem. It seems easy to read but when it comes to dipper meanings it can be understood by some extra ordinary people who has historical knowled of it.
In the story as well as in the lines of Wasteland there is deep meaning inside it. The act of coasting is not just for fun or for other things. It indicates the first lustful act, first attraction. How the first relation made deep effect in one's life.
E.g.-
"That memory is for her the happiest, the most touching, the most beautiful one of her life. But for me, now that I have grown older, I can no longer understand why I said those words and why I jested with Nadia"
Here we can interpret that from " A Joke " by Chekhov . Same theme as in " The Wasteland " there all part reflects this theme and a lustful relation of people in burning land . at some point both reflects same theme of ," Sexual Perversion " so it can be said that all literature connected with each other in terms of representing time, love , sexual Perversion, Good and evil , existence of God , nature of human beings this all things presented in one or another way.
This Blog is a part of classroom activities in which students have to interpret two works one is T.S.Eliot's 'Wasteland' and another is the story ' The Joke' by Anton Chekhov.
All literatures are connected with each other; all, those which are already written, those yet to be written. Thus, to understand a work of art, one must have an understanding of this continuity. This means that a writer makes use of one sign, symbol, character, situation is used by other writers, and if this goes on recurrently happen it turns into literary metaphor.
“Every organized body of knowledge can be learned progressively; and experience shows that there is also something progressive about the learning of literature.” - Northrop Frye
Theory of Archetypal criticism based on the idea that whole literature has oneness of it’s existence. All literature shares common DNA or Skeleton.
These lines from The Waste Land can better be understood if we read it in the context of short story of AntonChekhov (A Joke).
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
Interpretation of lines:--
An ordinary reader can't understand hidden meanings of these lines beacause of esoteric chracteristics of poem. It seems easy to read but when it comes to dipper meanings it can be understood by some extra ordinary people who has historical knowled of it.
In the story as well as in the lines of Wasteland there is deep meaning inside it. The act of coasting is not just for fun or for other things. It indicates the first lustful act, first attraction. How the first relation made deep effect in one's life.
E.g.-
"That memory is for her the happiest, the most touching, the most beautiful one of her life. But for me, now that I have grown older, I can no longer understand why I said those words and why I jested with Nadia"
Here we can interpret that from " A Joke " by Chekhov . Same theme as in " The Wasteland " there all part reflects this theme and a lustful relation of people in burning land . at some point both reflects same theme of ," Sexual Perversion " so it can be said that all literature connected with each other in terms of representing time, love , sexual Perversion, Good and evil , existence of God , nature of human beings this all things presented in one or another way.
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