Dis/Continuities: Natural and Artistic Landscape/Seascape in T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and S.T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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Abstract
This study sets T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” against Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, arguing that although both poems belong to different literary traditions, yet they exhibit certain similarities and parallels that should not be overlooked. This paper identifies these parallels within the two poem’s recruitment of the following: the quest motif, along with notions of sin, punishment, and salvation; fertility rites; indifferent setting; raped/betrayed nature or female; water imagery; the supernatural figure and resurrection of the dead along with notions of life-in-death. It turns out that natural elements are incorporated in both poems as a test tube to examine human values and norms of behavior against the background of nature, within a conception of man as the archetypal solitary outsider. The paper then underlines the interrelatedness of the symbolic journey in nature in both poems and the journey into precursor artistic/poetic landscapes, whereby Eliot’s journey across the indifferent realms of the Waste Land might perhaps be seen as a continuity, or even discontinuity, of the piscatorial journey of Coleridge’s Mariner. And with the parallels between the two poems in mind, the paper then poses a question about the boundaries of Eliot’s overemphasized anti-Romantic attitudes. Key words: Eliot; Coleridge; Rime; Waste Land; Romantic Poetry; Modern Poetry Resume: Cette etude met La terre de T.S. Eliot dans l'etat oppose de La Rime du vieux marin de Samuel Taylor Coleridge, en affirmant que bien que ces deux poemes appartiennent a de differentes traditions litteraires, ils presentent certaines similitudes et des paralleles qui ne devraient pas etre negligees. Cet article identifie ces paralleles au sein des elements suivants utilises dans ces deux poemes: le motif de quete; ainsi que des notions de peche, punition et salut; les rites de fertilite; le reglage indifferent; la nature violee / trahie ou feminine; l'imagerie de l'eau; la figure surnaturelle et la resurrection des morts ainsi que des notions de vie en mort. Il s'avere que les elements naturels sont incorpores dans les deux poemes comme un moyen pour examiner les valeurs humaines et des normes de comportement contre le contexte de la nature, dans une conception selon laquelle l'homme est un outsider archetype solitaire. L'article souligne ensuite l'interdependance des parcours symboliques dans la nature dans ces deux poemes et le voyage dans des paysages precurseurs artistiques / poetiques, par lequel le voyage d'Eliot travers les royaumes indifferents de la Terre vaine pourrait peut-etre vu comme une continuite, voire une discontinuite, du voyage halieutique des marins de Coleridge. Et avec les paralleles entre les deux poemes dans l'esprit, l'article pose alors une question sur les limites des attitudes anti-romantiques surestimees d'Eliot. Mots-cles: Eliot; Coleridge; Rime; Terre Vaine; PoESie Romantique; PoESie Moderne
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".