Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2015

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: A Critical Analysis

Jyotiprakash S. Deshmukh

Abstract :

Thomas Stearns Eliot is a multifaceted literary personality of the twentieth century. He is a renowned poet, critic and playwright owing to whom Margaret Drabble describes him as a major figure in English literature since 1920s.1 There are two important hints which are useful to understand what T.S. Eliot conveys through the depiction of the conflicts in his poetry and drama. The first is reflected in the middle statement in his announcement in 1928 that “He was a royalist in politics, an Anglo–Catholic in religion and a classicist in literature.”2 The second is explicitly expressed in the description of T.S.Eliot by Vernon Hall thus: “He is, in more than the theological sense of the word, dogmatic, and he declares in one place that the only people who can understand what he is talking about are those for whom the doctrine of original sin is very real and tremendous thing.”3 The Waste Land, his evergreen poem is a best example to understand Eliot further as a poet with no binding boundaries. The Waste Land the aftermath of any war that might have taken place or that might take place in the near future. The following article attempts to critically analyze The Waste Land as poem with universal appeal.

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JYOTIPRAKASH S. DESHMUKH T. S. Eliot¥s The Waste Land: A Critical Analysis Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 2 February 2015

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