A Game of Chess
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"A Game of Chess" is the second section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem "The Waste Land," depicting fractured, anxiety-ridden domestic and social scenes that reflect the broader spiritual desolation of post–World War I Europe.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Game of Chess canonical | 3 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
poem section ⓘ |
| alludesTo |
Antony and Cleopatra
ⓘ
Ovid ⓘ Philomela myth ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ
surface form:
Shakespeare
The Tempest ⓘ |
| author | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
domestic scenes
ⓘ
marital tension ⓘ psychological fragmentation ⓘ sexual anxiety ⓘ social scenes ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1922 ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Fire Sermon ⓘ |
| follows |
The Waste Land
ⓘ
surface form:
The Burial of the Dead
|
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely studied in modernist scholarship ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | 20th-century poetic representations of urban alienation ⓘ |
| includedIn | first edition of The Waste Land (1922) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| meter | irregular ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | shifting perspectives ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Waste Land
ⓘ
five-part structure of The Waste Land ⓘ |
| poet | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| positionInWork | second section ⓘ |
| publisherOfContainingWork |
Boni & Liveright
ⓘ
Faber & Gwyer ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
interior domestic space ⓘ |
| symbolism |
chess as metaphor for human relationships
ⓘ
luxurious interior as facade over emptiness ⓘ voices as fragments of modern consciousness ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
breakdown of communication ⓘ decay of relationships ⓘ emptiness of modern urban life ⓘ post–World War I disillusionment ⓘ spiritual desolation ⓘ |
| uses |
dramatic dialogue
ⓘ
literary allusion ⓘ stream of consciousness techniques ⓘ |
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Subject: A Game of Chess Description of subject: "A Game of Chess" is the second section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem "The Waste Land," depicting fractured, anxiety-ridden domestic and social scenes that reflect the broader spiritual desolation of post–World War I Europe.
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