8.301.gandhi.pooja

The damaged human psyche:

→ World war-I challenged cultural notions of

masculine identity

→ Causing a general crisis of masculinity

Death:

→ Death can mean life

→ “ That corpse you planted last year in your

garden has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this

year?”

Spiritual regeneration:

→ implies a path to regenerate the denizens of the

waste land

→ E.g. “What the thunder said”: Datta- give,

Dayathawam- sympathise, Damyata- self-control

The seasons:

→ flucture, spinning from one state to another

→ season less: devoid of rain, of propagation, of real

change.

Water:

→ suggests the cleansing of sins, the washing away

of misdeeds

→ “is not so far removed in imagery, linked by the

potentially harmful forces of nature”

Conclusion:

The gist of the poem is apparently a wild revolt

from the abomination of desolation which is human

life.