This my notes about The Waste Land
Modernist characteristics in T S Eliot's The Waste Land:
1)''Omitting of the connection'' is a typical feature of Modernist writing: The Waste Land is a series of fragmentary episodes hardly connected with each other, It's five separate poems.
2) It uses myths as a structuring technique to replace the connected sequence of narrative. (e.g. Tiresias in the Fire Sermon,)
3)Modernist Impersonality: achieved through using allusions and quotation from earlier poems and other writings. Eliot builds on Shakespeare (A Game of chess).Wagner's (The Burial of the Dead).Buddha (The Fire Sermon).
4)Symbolism: contrast between the world of nature and the world of human achievement is symbolized in the city of London