Transfers of Meaning and Writing Techniques in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Transfers of Meaning and Writing Techniques in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Summary/Abstract: One of the most salient features of modernist aesthetics is that it proposes a fusion of elements pertaining to distinct arts. A good example is poetry, which resorts to techniques borrowed from painting such as the collage, juxtaposition or fragmentation. The modernist project relies heavily on the intersemiotic dialogue of arts. Our paper analyses such intersemiotic exchanges in modernist poetry with a particular focus on T.S. Eliot’s „The Waste Land”. We look into the techniques and strategies to which Eliot resorts in order to embed music and painting into the fabric of his poem and the effects they have on the generation of a plurality of perspectives on reality.

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