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The Waste Land - Who is T S Eliot's 'You'

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Sep2016 (Volume) 73
Medium (Periodical) E Magazine: the A-level English magazine.
Classif 820 EMA
Subject English literature
Page 6 - 9
Authors Day, Thomas
Contents

It's easy to forget a word as simple as the second person pronoun 'you'. But, as Dr Thomas Day shows, it is well worth paying close attention to the various ways in which it is used. Whether speaking to an individual character, to a more general humanity, to the reader or the poet addressing himself, the complexity of voices in the poem extends not only to the speaking voice, but also to the person being addressed.

Keywords
Poem     T. S. Eliot