Original scientific paper

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s The Waste Land and Miroslav Krleža’s “Planetarium”: A Comparative Analysis

Matija Štahan ; Zagreb

Abstract

The essay deals with the parallelisms between the poem The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot and “Planetarijom” (Planetarium), the closing poem of the collection of poems Balade Petrice Kerempuha (Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh, 1936) by Miroslav Krleža. Using the theoretical concepts of Ernst Robert Curtius, Gustav René Hocke and Northrop Frye, the essay places the causes of Eliot's and Krleža's poetic similarities in the context of twentieth-century Modernism. Comparatively juxtaposing different aspects of the two poems, the article shows that the characteristics of the canonized Modernism of the Anglo-American literary circle can also be found in Croatian literature, pointing to the universality of their appearance in the West.

Keywords

comparative analysis; poetry; Modernism; T. S. Eliot; Miroslav Krleža

Hrčak ID:

230333

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/230333

Publication date:

18.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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