Analysis Questions
1. In "The Waste Land," trace Eliot's indebtedness to Dante's The Divine Comedy.
2. List "modernist" themes discernible in "Gerontion."
3. Reconstruct T. S. Eliot's literary principles of composition in "Tradition and the Individual Talent."

Interpretation Questions
4. Recreate the symbol complex in "The Hollow Men" and explain its significance to the mood and dominant themes of the poem.
5. Explain Prufrock's identification of himself as the "Fool" in lines 111 - 119. Why does he reject an identity with Hamlet?

Evaluation Questions
6. Why does T. S. Eliot insist on a separation of the poet from the poem in the evaluation of any work? See his discussion in "Tradition and the Individual Talent."
7. Explain the purpose of Tiresias in "The Waste Land." Why is that character central as the primary voice in the poem?