David Wagner

Anneke Lubkowitz

Nadire Y. Biskin

Anna Hetzer

Jan Wilm

Anna Fedorova

Christian Wöllecke

Jonas Rump

Lukas Valtin

Oliver Heidkamp

Ron Winkler

Paul Scraton

Carla Kaspari

Jenny Schäfer

Lea Sauer

Hannah Beckmann

Olav Amende

Marie-Louise Monrad Møller

Joceline Ziegler

Gehen, das heißt auch: flanieren, spazieren, sich treiben lassen, Umwege nehmen. Im Gehen zeigt sich die Kartographie unseres raumbezogenen Möglichkeitssinns. Als eine von den Umständen bedingte Praxis wird es im Gehen aber auch immer dort reizvoll, ja, gefährlich, wo den Gehenden Grenzen gesetzt werden: Wo Werbung, Straßenschilder, Mauern und Zäune unsere Gehgeschwindigkeiten bestimmen. Wo inmitten der Architektur unsere Emotionen geformt werden. Und wo zwischen den Rastern der Norm – von der Bordsteinkante bis zur Skyline – die Stadt aufscheint.

Magazin für Literatur und Kultur

metamorphosen 27 – Gehen

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: High Modernism, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the epigraph to The Waste Land the Sybil, a woman with prophetic abilities, looks at the future and proclaims that the only thing she wants is to die. Her pessimism about the future is the first indication of the idea which develops into the central theme of the poem: the decay of the human civilization. In this paper I am going to concentrate on interpretation of the motif of decay and its meanings in The Waste Land. The poem was published in 1922 and appears to be a typical literary example of Modern poetry. That’s why I decided to adopt the New Critical perspective for my paper. [...] Since the New Critical approach implies the close reading of the text, I am going to work, for the most part, with the text itself (rather than with secondary sources) and go through the parts of the poem, pursuing three following issues: •to describe the main themes, which are raised in the five sections of the poem, and show how they contribute to the motif of decay and to the complexity of the poem. •to look at different levels of the text, searching for ambiguities and trying to resolve them. •to describe main literary devises which are used in the poem ( symbols, images, metaphors, irony, paradox and s.o.) and to show how the author’s techniques contribute to the theme of decay.

The motif of decay in "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot

Anna Fedorova

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