Discussion 6 LIT Assignment: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land
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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The late 20th century came with a rather influential twist in the way various artists and people were willing to express themselves. It was a departure from modernism which is an era that can be traced back to the late 19th and early 20th century (Keep, McLaughlin, & Parmar, 2016). Postmodernism was a time when people wanted to depart from the rationalism that came before (Keep, McLaughlin, & Parmar, 2016). It is also a time that artists wanted to guide the people into an era, where they could think and act freely of the social ideologies and narratives that had been embedded in the society for decades (Keep, McLaughlin, & Parmar, 2016).
One of the postmodernism artists that had some significant impact in the society at the time, is T.S. Eliot (Poetryfoundation.org, 2016). His poems are widely regarded even to date with reference to mo...