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Calvin Bedient is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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i) There is a single voice throughout the poem, which is engaged in a kind of pilgrimage.
ii) That pilgrimage leads beyond the messiness of the everyday to something which is unspecified, but which Bedient names the All, or silence.
iii) That this is a purely personal conversion, and is in a sense borderline nihilistic.
It's all a bit too neat to work completely, but it beats the pants off critics who use the same names and concepts to say that The Waste Land is really about glorying in sex and the promiscuity of language etc etc...… (altro)