The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
152×215×68mm, 1,288pages, hardcover, 2024
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot(The Waste Land as a Dictionary) is a book created by deconstructing all the words used in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and then reorganizing them in alphabetical order from A to Z. Using a dictionary, only the words and their definitions included in the poem are retained, while the rest is deleted, leaving empty spaces. This is known as ‘The Waste Land as a Dictionary,’ ‘The Dictionary of The Waste Land,’ or ‘The Dictionary Poem.’
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is a 1,520-word poem set against the backdrop of social and political chaos and moral collapse following World War I. The words and their dictionary meanings left in the work are everyday terms that persist amid societal and political turmoil.
The spaces left in the dictionary, excluding the words, disrupt the flow between words and create a rhythm, thereby helping to reinterpret the ‘Dictionary Poem’ in a different way.
