The Gray World
...ture. But what impressed us most is the different way for the two poets adopted to show their idea here. It¡¯s not difficult for us to find out something from The Waste Land that Mr. Eliot excerpted a great deal of literary quotation to hint the relationship between the reality and fable, and he mixed several languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, which made the whole poem more rich with its connotation. The other shiny point is the way of contrast through out the poem. For instance, the first line of the first part told ¡°April is the cruellest month¡± comparing with ¡°Whan that April with his showres soote¡± in The Canterbury Tales written by Chaucer; quoting four lines that described pure love from one of the Wagner¡¯s poem showed us the wonderful world, but answering ¡°Od¡¯ und leer das Meer¡± as the end which make you depressed. Eliot thought that living without any meaning was death, but the meaningful death was the overture of newly born. Different from Eliot, Mr. Yeats seems much simple in adopting those ways to rich his work. The only thing we find out from The Second Coming is the Gyre Theory. All ...