Khaled Lebiar

Opposing Trajectories: Juxtaposition, Simultaneity, and Spatial Form in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

The present paper examines two opposing voices in “The Burial of the Dead” the opening section of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: one lyrical, dense, and inwardly expressive; the other expansive, rhetorical, and outwardly declarative. It ultimately argues that these two voices constitute the poem's central modernist gest...