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Vasilij Kandinskij
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Kandinskij: la Neue Künstlervereinigung
Kandinskij: Der Blaue Reiter
Kandinskij: l'esperienza alla Bahaus
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Eliot: his poetic conception
Luigi Pirandello
Pirandello: la poetica
Pirandello: Il fu Mattia Pascal

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La relatività ristretta
Le ripercussioni filosofiche della relatività
Le ripercussioni letterarie della relatività

ELIOT:
THE WASTE LAND

One of the most significant poems of Eliot is The Waste Land; it was the decisive intervention of Ezra pound that "turned The Waste Land from a jumble of good and bad passages into a poem".

Considered by some critics the poetic equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses, the poem is the increasingly hallucinating description of a vast "waste" landscape, both physical and symbolic, in which myth and reality overlap.

The main themes of The Waste Land are:

• the meaningful link with the past: it is introduced in the poem both as a mythic past and historical past. The past often merges with the present and by juxtaposition, makes it look even more squalid and lifeless;
• the emptiness and sterility of modern life. Eliot presents sterility at various levels:
  • natural: the land is dry, rocky, polluted and unfruitful;
  • social: people find it difficult to communicate with each other and are unable to love;
  • spiritual: people no longer believe in religious values and in Christ as the spiritual Saviour.

There is no plot in the poem, but only a sequence of images, sometimes ambiguous, apparently unconnected and open to various interpretations but linked to each other by the technique of association of ideas (Joyce).

The poem is divided into five self-contained sections of various length that make up a whole work as they all revolve around the same vision of a nightmarish world inhabited by people that are spiritually dead, since their lack of faith has turned their lives into a sterile, arid waste land.