... , both in "The Fire Sermon," this could be symbolising a new life. After "The Fire Sermon," there is a brief section called "Death by Water," making it clear that death is "the end." Death must precede transformation and re-birth. Then there is the final part to the poem, "What the Thunder Said," this is the resurrection of the waste land, however, only ... renewal of The Waste Land and the beginning of a new life for all of the Waste Landers. Water is a life giving force and the realisation of this comes at the end of The Waste Land. The poem collapses into a rush of quotations and allu...

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... ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper" The stanza again highlights Eliot's view that human life is debased. Eliot expresses the notion that the end of human existence will not come about in a blaze of glory but instead through slow debasement. This slow decadence would be the result of the human race losing its continued ... . As the rhythm is dispersed throughout the poem, it exemplifies the decadence and slow disintegration of the morals and ethics held by society. As the poem comes near to an end, there is less and less occurrence of rhyme, illustrating tha...

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... . The poem starts with the death of Hallam and ends with happiness. The poem covers a period of time about three years. In the poem his grief from his friends death end with joy. "In Memoriam" came under attack against G.K Chesterton when hr wrote "Victorian Compromise," in 1913. T.S Eliot appreciates Tennyson up through "In Memoriam" in 1916 he wrote in his essays ... ...

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