The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said 의 詩作 과정에 관한 小考 = A Study on the Process of Writing The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said

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The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said of The Waste Land were all read, discussed, and re-written by Eliot with help from Ezra Pound. Through the work of drafting the poem, many parts of The Waste Land were eliminated, corrected or expanded, sometimes producing quite a lot of changes to the original draft. The most distinguishing superficial result of the drafting of the poem is its continual sense of disconnection. Many parts of The Waste Land which do not offer any bridges from one part to the other and which seem often senseless in time, place, action, and persons are connected with one another in ways that sometimes seem meaningless to the reader. However this disorientation or lack of sequences in the poem may show how the poet's contemporaries feel about the real world where most people are confronted by the chaos or fruitlessness of reality.
It is interesting to examine his first and second drafts of the poem, since the process of writing the poem shows that countless corrections or much advice from Ezra Pound on the poem were inevitable for pointing out the subject of the poem. By this I mean that the main idea of the poem is written so effectively in accordance with the numerous corrections during the draft. When Eliot is said to have been successful in presenting a wilderness in which both he and the reader may be bewildered, we may draw a conclusion that so many corrections and removals of some parts of the poem were good enough to show that the confusing disconnections made in the process of the writing were also the milestones to lead the reader to the poet's consciousness world.