Listen to audio recordings of T.S. Eliot's THE WASTELAND

T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot reads his classic poem "The Waste Land." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Harvard, Eliot lived most of his life in England. In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. The poem has five sections and has been split into four sound files:

"The Burial of the Dead" .au format (3 Mb), .gsm format (0.6 Mb), .ra format (0.3 Mb),
"A Game of Chess" .au format (3.2 Mb), .gsm format (0.6 Mb), .ra format (0.4 Mb).
"The Fire Sermon" and "Death By Water" .au format (4.8 Mb), .gsm format (0.9 Mb), .ra format (0.6 Mb).
"What the Thunder Said" .au format (3.7 Mb), .gsm format (0.7 Mb), .ra format (0.4 Mb).

The Waste Land is considered to be Eliot's masterpiece, rich in symbolic, literary, and historical references as the poem explores the struggles of a soul in despair.

From http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html

Poetry

Content: The content of a poem is, quite simply, what it is all about – the ideas, themes and storyline that it contains.

Form: This refers to the way in which the poem is structured or laid out. The key points here are why the poet has chosen a particular form and what effect is achieved through the use of that form.

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The Papers and Syllabus for 2007

Candidates for the Advanced Level qualification take four papers. Papers 3 and 4 may be taken either in the same session as Papers 5, 6, 7 and 8 or in an earlier examination session.

Candidates are required to take Papers 3, 4, 5 and 6, 7 or 8.

Paper 3 - Poetry and Prose
Paper 4 - Drama
Paper 5 - Shakespeare and Other pre-20th Century Texts
Paper 6 - 20th Century Texts
Paper 7 - Comment and Appreciation
Paper 8 - Coursework

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