Contextual Research Questions
2.5.2, 4.5.2
Relevant links to guide you:
 http://wohlstadterj.faculty.mjc.edu/E%20138%20Modernism.pdf
 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/out-of-the-wasteland-the-first-worldwar-and-modernism-1.2190829
 https://stcvawasteland.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/eliot-and-psychoanalysis/
 https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/t.s.-eliot-and-the-struggle-of-faith
1. How was the mundane and desire for purpose in London, deeply troubled by the
trauma of WW1?
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2. What feelings and thoughts were intrinsically connected to the post-war experience
in Britain?
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3. Explain the paradoxical impacts of the rise in the modern city in London.
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4. How might Eliot’s poetry function as a response to his subject position as a citydweller?
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5. Qualify the influence of Freud on the development and style of Eliot’s work.
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6. In your own words, define the literary movement of ‘Modernism’. What are the
characteristics and features of the Modernist period?
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7. What value was religion given during this time period? Account for the tone of ‘The
Journey of the Magi’ as distinct from Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’.
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