T.S. ELIOT'S MISREADING OF SOME LITERARY SOURCES IN THE WASTE LAND

  • Liem Satya Limanta Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University
Keywords: misreading, misinterpretation, misprision, creativity, revisionary ratio.

Abstract

A poet cannot be a poet at all if he is not connected with all the poetic tradition before him. This is T.S. Eliot's dictum which he stated in Tradition and the Individual Talent and which he practiced in his work The Waste Land. T.S. Eliot showed his relationship with the past through all the quotations and allusions to mythical, literary, and religious works. His reading of those sources according to Paul de Man cannot avoid misreading or misinterpretation. Harold Bloom has tried to build up a theory of misreading, which he prefers to call misprision, especially applied to and done by poets in The Anxiety of Influence. Throughout this article I shall show how T.S. Eliot has applied some of the ways Bloom describes in reading some of the literary sources, and by so doing Eliot has given new meaning to them.

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Published
2004-06-01
How to Cite
Limanta, L. (2004). T.S. ELIOT’S MISREADING OF SOME LITERARY SOURCES IN THE WASTE LAND. K@ta, 4(2), 101-114. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.4.2.101-114
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