T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (bloom's Modern Cr... Direct

: Bloom argues that despite its European setting and allusions, the poem is essentially an American self-elegy masking as a mythological romance.

The anthology brings together various schools of thought—including New Criticism and Myth Criticism—to analyze the following: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Cr...

: He interprets it as a "Romantic crisis poem" that merely pretends to be an exercise in Christian irony. : Bloom argues that despite its European setting

: Critics in this volume view the poem's non-linear structure as a reflection of the "fragmented modern consciousness" following World War I . T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Cr...