T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Guides) by Harold Bloom

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It has been created by the magician Prospero in order to reveal to the voyagers the corrupt condition of their lives and to engineer his own return to life after being cast out of his kingdom and left to die on a barren island. By allusion to The Tempest, Eliot makes Shakespeare’s play into a metaphor for the condition described in The Waste Land. Our lives are depleted and we are on the verge of shipwreck. But we are not really shipwrecked. The barrenness of the world, the impotence of its creatures is an illusory reality.

Mr. Kenner argues persuasively that Eliot “may well have had in mind at one time a kind of modern Aeneid, the hero crossing seas to pursue his destiny, detained by one woman and prophesied to by another, and encountering visions of the past and the future, all culminated in a city both founded and yet to be founded, unreal and oppressively real, the Rome through whose past Dryden saw London’s future” (pp. 39–40). London was to be “the original Fisher King as well as the original Waste Land, resembling Augustine’s Carthage as Dryden’s London had resembled Ovid’s Rome” (p.

The words are Shakespeare’s. They come from a song in The Tempest that the spirit, Ariel, sings in the mind of Ferdinand, who believes he is the only survivor of a shipwreck in which his father was drowned. Perhaps like the Phoenician sailor? The words suggest, however, not only death but rebirth because Ferdinand’s father has not been drowned: The shipwreck in The Tempest is illusory. It has been created by the magician Prospero in order to reveal to the voyagers the corrupt condition of their lives and to engineer his own return to life after being cast out of his kingdom and left to die on a barren island.

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