Valley of ashes free#

Valley of ashes free#

The setting shows the lives of the high society who though are free from the grinding of the daily struggle still face the emotional and sexual collapse due to self absorption. The whiff of air flatten the candles that burn and smoke fills the grand room. The spirits are all confused and troubled by the fresh air coming from the open window (metaphor on state of disarray inside due to the incoming fear of the unknown). The setting though luxuriant looks artificial and of decay and decadence. The lady herself is covered with glitter from all the jewels she is wearing. The room is filled with big paintings on the walls, perfumes that pervades the room, ivory vials of exotic scents that fill the satin cases. The first stanza opens with opulent setting where a wealthy lady sits on a high chair in a room stocked with all the paraphernalia of the rich society. From what I could grasp, there are two broad stanzas with different context and narrator all reinforcing the theme of lust, breakdown and drudgery in marriage. This part builds on the same theme but is not as extensive as the first part. TS Eliot : The Waste Land-'The Burial Of The Dead' Manjunatha M The first part dealt with the sterility of the land and love where love has lost the power to redeem and invigorate the times. Vivid without being voyeuristic, these poems provoke both mourning and anger, and though highly specific in time and place, they are immediately comprehensible across the borders of nation and language. The Rising of the Ashes is a quietly unrelenting, essential act of remembering that balances lyricism with horror. The second depicts the displacement and killings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and the Occupied Territories during the Israeli invasion in 1983, and the beginning of the first Intifada.

The first of this book's two long poems addresses the human devastation wrought upon Iraq in the first Gulf War. In The Rising of The Ashes, the poet summons dates in all their irrefutable numerical precision, and puts them to the quiet and imaginative work of record-keeping and record-creating - he is unrelenting in his work of excavation and tribute, in his litany of dates and names and places, of daily atrocities and pleasures. The violence of war is rendered immediate and vividly personal in this powerful book by one of North Africa's premier writers and intellectuals. Due to its physical traits, important events, and the tragic deaths of its initial contributors, the Valley of Ashes goes beyond a symbolic representation of social corruption and the futile American Dream to magnify Jay Gatsby, who represents the unwavering pursuit of humanity towards hope. It shows true value through its victims of capitalism, which is the value of human efforts even with abysmal ends. Although it may seem like a secondary prop in the novel, the Valley of Ashes encompasses a greater theme beyond representing the failure of the American Dream. It is also where important scenes of death and adultery are related to.

The Valley of Ashes is the place where the lower class make futile efforts to obtain the American Dream. Scott Fitzgerald’s highly acclaimed novel, The Great Gatsby, mainly portrays the fancy life of the upper class, it hints at an ugly side of the capitalist system. “Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, and brutalizes our lower class,” (Institute) said 19th century English essayist Matthew Arnold.