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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of...
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  • Waste Land (Portuguese: Lixo Extraordinário, lit. 'Extraordinary Garbage') is a 2010 British-Brazilian documentary film directed by Lucy Walker, co-directed...
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  • Wasteland (redirect from Waste land)
    wasteland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wasteland or waste land may refer to: Desert or barren area an uncultivated area of land, whether wooded or not...
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    by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He wrote seven plays, notably Murder in the Cathedral...
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    Fiona Shaw (category Honorary commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    played the male lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. She performed T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty...
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  • Eliot 1922 poem The Waste Land, several lines of which are reprinted in the opening pages. In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear...
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    Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items...
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  • Lloyd have called Paterson his response to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Pound's Cantos. The long gestation time of Paterson before its first book was...
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    Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A...
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    Landfill (redirect from Waste dump)
    began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was simply left in piles or thrown into pits (known in archeology as middens). Landfills take up a lot of land and pose...
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    Deborah Warner (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    with the performance of poetry (The Waste Land, Readings) and the staging of oratorios (St John Passion, Messiah), as well as installations (The St Pancras...
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  • A Perfect Day for Bananafish (category Works originally published in The New Yorker)
    [emphasis added] The stanza that contains the verse is from Section I of The Waste Land – "The Burial of the Dead": April is the cruelest month, breeding...
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    rhythm guitarist Ryan Waste as the only constant members. In addition to Foresta and Waste, their current lineup includes Philip "Land Phil" Hall on bass...
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    Industrial waste is the waste produced by industrial activity which includes any material that is rendered useless during a manufacturing process such...
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    Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land...
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    London Bridge (category Bridges in the City of London)
    and songs, including the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. The modern bridge is owned...
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    Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes...
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    to Aphrodite. The hyacinth appears in the first section of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land during a conversation between the narrator and the "hyacinth girl"...
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  • inspirations for The Waste Land. While Weston's work on the Grail theme has been derided as fanciful speculation in the years since the publication of From...
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    Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment. Waste can be hazardous because it is toxic,...
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    S(tearns) (1922). The Waste Land. New York: Horace Liveright. —— (1971). Eliot, Valerie (ed.). The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts...
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  • Literary modernism (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art." Eliot's own modernist poem The Waste Land (1922) mirrors "the futility and anarchy" in its...
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  • Look to Windward (category The Culture)
    feature the Culture. The book's dedication reads: "For the Gulf War Veterans". The novel takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land: O...
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  • Gerontion (section The poem)
    preface to The Waste Land, but was talked out of this by Ezra Pound. Along with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land, and other works...
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    Eliot's "The Waste Land" also evokes the common nightingale's song (and the myth of Philomela and Procne). Because of the violence associated with the myth...
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    demolition waste (C&D waste) Controlled waste Demolition waste Dog waste Domestic waste Electronic waste (e-waste) Food waste Green waste Grey water Hazardous...
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  • Eliot's The Waste Land, which appears at line 386 of "What the Thunder Said", part V of the poem: In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint...
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    is that on the other side of you? T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land  Lines 359 through 365 of T. S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land were inspired...
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    and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he...
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    The Waste Land (Section III, The Fire Sermon) and in a note Eliot states that Tiresias is "the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest...
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