Figures of Speech in the Waste Land

both(prenominal) figures of delivery in the wasteland Figures of legal transfer comprise two main categories. One category twists the pith of countersigns to wrest a new non-literal nitty-gritty from words that, when phrased together, have a very variant literal meaning, as in the idiomatic figure of speech, He died from laughter. Literally, this means a human race met his expiry due to laughter. Figuratively (i. e. , non-literally), this means he laughed with vigor for a long time. Figures of speech that twist meaning are classified astropes.The other category enhances meaning by arranging and rearranging words and word order to dramatize, emphasize or more elegantly express the point at hand. For example, an analogy whitethorn be more dramatically made by using achiasmusthat inverts parallelism in a typical abba component arrangement. For example, consider the inverted parallelism of this The day a but shines b, but glows b the night a. Figures of speech that enhance thro ugh words, sounds, letters, word order and syntax are classified as word schemes, or justschemes.It is clear from this brief explanation of figures of speech thatThe Wasteland, with a figure of speech as its very title, testament be replete with figures of speech of both kinds,tropes and schemes. In this format, I heap identify a hardly a(prenominal) prominent ones, the first being the title. The Wastelandis the everyplacearching figure of speech (trope/metaphor) that shapes this entire poetic treatise on the submit of the world in Eliots day. The title of Part I, The Burial of the Dead, is itself a significant figure of speech, also a metaphor, that establishes the central idea of the work.For Eliot, following World War I (1914-1918), Earth itself was ravaged, torn and murdered, Lilacs out of the dead land . This figure of speech signifies that death resulting from WWI encompasses the dead who died in battle and the dead who still trace though dead inside from horror and fr om the loss of dead Earth A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, 62 I had not thought death had undone so many. watchword of man is another important figure of speech, an allusion and metaphor, as this is to whom portions of Part I are addressed parole of man, 20You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, Another important figure of speech (trope/analogy and symbol) found in Part III, The Fire Sermon, is Tiresias, the blind old man who sees At the over-embellished hour I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives, can see At the reddish blue hour, the evening hour that strives 220 Homeward, This figure of speech is important because it represents Eliots point and belief that the living dead cannot see, can no longer perceive, what is around them, what is true.This is also an allusion to the Biblical precept that those who see are blind, that is, cannot see ghostlike truth. Figures of speech of theschemekind are also present, though seemin gly less prominent and utilize for elegance and compression rather than for significance. An example is found in Part III the young man carbuncular. Here the word order is changed so that the adjective modifier carbuncular follows the head noun (man) of the noun phrase. well-worn word order would be the carbuncular young man. This sort of rearrangement of word order, with the adjective coming afterwards the noun, is called ananastrophe