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Mentioned in 22 episodes

The waste land

Book • 1922

The Waste Land is a 434-line poem divided into five sections: 'The Burial of the Dead', 'A Game of Chess', 'The Fire Sermon', 'Death by Water', and 'What the Thunder Said'.

It is a complex and erudite work that incorporates numerous allusions to mythology, classical literature, and religious texts.

The poem reflects the spiritual disillusionment and moral decay of the Western world after World War I, portraying a sterile and fragmented society.

It was initially met with controversy due to its innovative and often obscure style but has since become a central work in the modernist canon.

Mentioned by

Joshua Michael Schrei

Mentioned in 22 episodes

Mentioned by

Joshua Michael Schrei

among other books and resources.

349 snips

On Singing to the Beloved in Times of Crisis

Mentioned by speaker 3 as a modernist masterpiece by T.S. Eliot.

189 snips

Billion dollar babies: Trump-Musk spat

Mentioned by

Robert Greene

to highlight the human tendency to prefer illusion over reality.

136 snips

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Mentioned by

Dominic Sandbrook

as containing a reference to the Battle of Mylae.

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424. Carthage vs. Rome: Total War (Part 4)

Mentioned by

Tom Holland

and

Dominic Sandbrook

as one of the greatest poems in English, published in 1922.

59 snips

136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1

Mentioned when sharing Ethan Malik's test of ElevenLabs' new model with a passage from it.

37 snips

Is AI Getting Too Real?

Mentioned by

Gabriel Kennedy

in relation to Robert Anton Wilson's use of the metaphor "Chapel Perilous."

30 snips

Gabriel Kennedy — The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson (EP.258)

Mentioned by

Zachary Marlow

when discussing the symbolism of the Holy Grail and the concept of the wasteland.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (w/ Zachary Marlow)

Mentioned by

Arshia Sattar

in relation to the title of

Girish Karnad

’s play, "A Heap of Broken Images."

17 snips

175. #GirishKarnad(1/9) The River Has No Fear of Memories: An Introduction

Mentioned by

Isaac Levin

as an example of literature he read in a liberal arts class, connecting it to technology.

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Spriha Tucker

Mentioned by

Brad Harris

as a literary work capturing the fragmentation of meaning after the Great War.

The Decline of the West: Oswald Spengler’s Prophetic Vision

Mentioned by

Robert Harrison

in relation to the impact of World War I on literary modernism, questioning whether a poem like "The Waste Land" could have been written before the war.