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This page contains a list of words that I've seen used in books about The Waste Land. Mix 'em and match 'em and you have yourself a paper.
No, seriously, I really don't recommend your trying to string all these together in one report or theme paper. Your instructor might not recoginize the result as your own work (and you know what that means.) Instead, use this list to pick up a few new words to add to your vocabulary or to refresh your memory ("Oh, right, that's the word that I wanted to express how Eliot wanted us to feel.")
Then again, another use might be to use them on secret Buzzword Bingo cards to hand out before the English literature lecture. Be forewarned - don't get caught!
I plan to organize these buzzwords somewhat someday. Until then confusion rules.
Further resources:
allusion
quotations
knowledge
difficult fragmented interpretation reading scenes styles rhythms
moods connection narrative drama lyric original deceptive
complex confusing images symbols mundane profane anquish suffering
original fragments situations historic contrast ironic passages private
intimate distance observations banal lust longing desire
emotion personal impersonal
commentatary
comtemporary
civilization, society, culture
perspectives, views
composed fascinating complete incomplete
framework, stucture, form
sections, parts, passages, sequence, lines, stanzas, cluster, elements
material, pages, phrases, units, paragraphs, syllables, words, ideas
variations on the themes
modernism, symbolism
readers, critics, reviewers
synopsis puzzling edited
iambic meter pattern
recur, recurrant
musical, lyrical
underlaying properties concern clustered
reappear identified associated linked
representatives symbols awaited
sensual disturbing
human condition
betray, betrayed, betraying
pattern, rythym, stress, dominant, subordinate
blank verse, couplets, iambic tetrameter free verse
annotate creativity surprise interest alternating
earlier
examination impression purpose express
death, decay, rot, rotten
rebirth, resurrection, restoration, transformation, transforms,
transfiguration, regeneration, generation, revivial
oppressed
demons, devils
dream, nightmare
burdened exorcism communicate
descriptive
published, wrote, drafted, rewrote, conceived
contains incorporated understanding
context meaning (historial context, symbolic meaning)
eliminating
satire, parody
narrative, lyrics
pattern
degradation, vular, crude, imagery, horror (vular sex)
song, medley, aria
shifts and changes
unify, rend
protrayed
revulsion, fear, horror, terror,
horrible, terrible
narrator, speaker, persona, voice, meditator, poet, protaganist,
poet-protaganist, central conscience
description
realistic, surrealistic
allude allure shift memories
poem, work, opus
love, desire, passion, lust
situation memories
weary urban
constitutes, makes up, forms
desolate, desolation, wasteland, desert, sterile, infertile, arid
theraputic
effective
emphasis significance implication meditative
range of meaning
faith quest tone evoke enigma (matic) hysteria
disconnected love persistent sources
sexual
situation, event, dramatic scenes, stream-of-consciousness
humor puns
unity prevailing (meaning, tone)
change hope
composite theme disturbing
heat, drought, deluge, relief
oracle, seer, prophet, herald, sybil, fortune-teller
lost degrade
fruitful, fertile, fertility, creativity
cycle cylic
characters empty crowds unease formal - informal
repitition, variation,
transfiguring
Related to themes:
major, minor, primary, secondary, plot, sub-plot,
dominant, subordinate, central, peripheral, prominent
focus experience dwell
suggest
pervasive
characterize
focus focused prominent
sacred, holy, unholy, profane
casual empty
meets, encounters
depicts, shows, illustrates, demostrates, protrays
synopsis, summing up
sustain, continue developing emotional physical sad ugly
longing spiritual experience permeates sorrow restoration
metaphorically, literally
manifest
Conditions of mind:
madness, insanity, sanity, breakdown, ennui, emotions,
feelings, aboulie, condition, emotional state, lustful
guilt, remorse
sterile conclusion purgation
destructive transforms relieves revives
intriguing phrase speech
soul regrets fooly hope
torture torturous tired indentifiable edition volume hysteria portrait
composition examination dependence decadence marriage
penetration introduction confessional biographical enigmatic
epigraph_epigram
misunderstood cheap lush paralysis destructive loveless
physic_wound bitterness anguish poignant_memory situation
juncture
suggests suggesting suggestive suggestiveness
loss conjured abandoned victims hurt terrible
hurt conceived anatomy body
inspiration comprehended reference repulsion-attraction attachment intimacy
spiritual poetic represent inaccessible paralysis
relationships (man-man man-woman woman-woman)
profoundly identifying conjectural deceive emotional
establish connected revelation biographical appearance
chant song
cluster intense
irony ironic ironically
squirrel
tortuous twisting winding indirect oblique obscure tortuousity
inevitable acute drawing_on submerging opaque transparent
resentment washed path mythology
conflict, battle
harmony, unification
thrust representative meaningless
committed unspeakable
suggestion
cleansing, purification
experience imagination-imaginative- transfiguration obscure tenuous
inspired satisfying (in) comprehended repellent linked pollution
profession exhaustion evokes evocatitive
impact depth breadth descriptive
central_consciousness
essence tired
embody express art obsevation remarkable critical vague statement
discover conceal reveal quote extreme
apparent revulsion
disabling inhibition
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