8.301.gandhi.pooja
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Transcript of 8.301.gandhi.pooja
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The damaged human psyche:
→ World war-I challenged cultural notions of
masculine identity
→ Causing a general crisis of masculinity
Death:
→ Death can mean life
→ “ That corpse you planted last year in your
garden has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this
year?”
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Spiritual regeneration:
→ implies a path to regenerate the denizens of the
waste land
→ E.g. “What the thunder said”: Datta- give,
Dayathawam- sympathise, Damyata- self-control
The seasons:
→ flucture, spinning from one state to another
→ season less: devoid of rain, of propagation, of real
change.
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Water:
→ suggests the cleansing of sins, the washing away
of misdeeds
→ “is not so far removed in imagery, linked by the
potentially harmful forces of nature”
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Conclusion:
The gist of the poem is apparently a wild revolt
from the abomination of desolation which is human
life.