Greg's+Presentation

=The Rebirth of Classicism in the Twentieth Century: = =Modernism and Antiquity =


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= "No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead." - T.S. Eliot =





= The Ancient vs. The Modern =

= T.S. Eliot =



= Eliot's Notes =





=“To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general…I mean // The Golden Bough //; I have used especially the two volumes // Adonis, Attis, Osiris //. Anyone who is acquainted with these works will immediately recognize in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies.” T.S. Eliot=









= The poem suggests 1920s Europe was a cultural, moral, and sexual wasteland. =



= "Shantih shantih shantih" =

=__**Special thanks to:**__= = = =Christopher Penna: advisor and creator of the wiki= = = =Wikimedia Commons: the source of most of my pictures= = = =Norton Critical Edition of //The Waste Land//: without it I probably still wouldn't understand the poem= = = =My research group: for all the input=

=T.S. Eliot: for being worth writing about.=