Therapeutic Reading on The Waste Land

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210313.062How to use a DOI?

Keywords

poetry therapy, catharsis, mental illness, The Waste Land

Abstract

T.S. Eliot regards mental illness as a crucial source of poetry creation and the purpose of writing poetry as catharsis of suppressed emotions and “grouse against life”, gaining relief from extreme miseries, instead of communicating with others. The thesis attempts to discuss the function of catharsis therapy in The Waste Land from the perspective of poetry therapy, combining the poet’s experience of mental sufferings before the creation of The Waste Land and the process of his creation and modification of the poem.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chao Dun
AU  - Yu Peng
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - Therapeutic Reading on The Waste Land
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 326
EP  - 329
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.062
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.062
ID  - Dun2021
ER  -