Abstract
In her article The Waste Land and Surging Nationalisms Pouneh Saeedi analyzes T.S. Eliot's poem in the context of the impact of World War I and the emergence of nationalisms. In the midst of the ruins of both his personal life and Europe as he understand its civilization, Eliot expresses the loss of a universal understanding delineated in the fragmentation of language and a disassociation of sensibility. In The Waste Land, the West and the East, represented in their respective canonical texts, commingle and cohere to present an image of oneness that goes beyond oppositional binaries and leads the egotistical self to look beyond antagonistic dichotomies and ultimately embrace a peace beyond national and linguistic boundaries. Pouneh Saeedi, The Waste Land and Surging Nationalisms page 2 of 8 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.4 (2011):
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