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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A Game of Chess canonical 3

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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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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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The Waste Land section A Game of Chess
The Fire Sermon follows A Game of Chess
Death by Water relatedWork A Game of Chess