T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”

An Academic Essay on Fragmentation in The Wasteland  “These fragments I have shored against my ruins” – T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland For today’s post, I’ve revisited another old essay from my time in academia. In my very first year of university, in one of the most life changing English classes I’ve taken to date, we studied T.S. Eliot’s famous poem The Wasteland. The essay I wrote explores the fragmented structure and context, as well as the history that influenced the poem. T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland is perhaps best well known as marking the foundation of modern poetry. This is due…