Spiritual Degeneration and Redemption: Exploring Indian Philosophy in T.S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53863/ejou.v3i02.886Keywords:
Sterility, Anxiety, Frustration, Mechanical Life, Hypocrisy, SalvationAbstract
This study analyzes T.S Eliot's epoch-making poem ''The Waste Land'' to deeply investigate the crises of post-war modern European society manifested in the poem as spiritual degeneration, skepticism, adultery, temptation, mechanism, hypocrisy, anxiety and unfaithfulness. Qualitative method has been applied in the study to collect data and analyze them.The paper also explores the ways of salvation of the crises that are mentioned by the poet as giving, sympathizing and controlling. Moral crises occupy a great position in human civilization in the modern period where man has forgotten all his ethics, spiritual rebirth and even religion. It also examines how modern men and women lead their lives in life-in-death, how they follow their traditional routine and how modernism captures them. Again, the study brings out the moral degradation and its various aspects and argues that T.S Eliot is heavily influenced by Hinduism to find out the way of regeneration that is terribly important for the entire human race.
Keywords: Sterility, Anxiety, Frustration, Mechanical Life, Hypocrisy, Salvation
References
Abrams, M. H. (1993). The Norton anthology of English literature (Vol. 2). S. Greenblatt
(Ed.). New York and London: WW Norton.
Bartky, S. L. (1990). Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of
Oppression Routledge. New York, London.
Bloom, H. (Ed.). (2003). Luigi Pirandello: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide.
Infobase Publishing.Coote, S. (1985). The Waste Land London: Penguin Critical Studies.
erber, Michael. (1991). A Dictionary of Literary Symbols. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Fulweiler, H. W. (1993). Here a captive Heart Basted: Studies in the Sentimental Journey
of Modern Literature. New York: Fordham University Press.
Greenblatt, S., & Christ, C. T. (Eds.). (2012). The Norton anthology of English
literature (Vo1). WW Norton & Company.
Gunner. J. (1985). T.S Eliot's Romantic Dilemma, New York: Garland.
Hentea, M. (2010). The Silence of the Last Poet: Matthew Arnold, TS Eliot, and the Value of the Classic. Modern Language Quarterly, 71(3), 297-328.
Morrisons, Paul.(1996). The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S Eliot, and Paul de Man.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shahane, V. A. (1972). CliffsNotes on Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt.
Rader, M (1939). No Compromise: The conflict between two worlds. New York:
Macmillan.
Reeves, G. (1994). T.S Eliot's The Waste Land. NY: Harvester Wheat Sheaf.
Smith, G., (1983). The Waste Land. London: George Allen and Unwin.
Southam, B.C. (1994). A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot. New York: Harcourt,
Brace & Co
Vickery, J. B. (2015). The literary impact of The golden bough. Princeton University
Press.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Md. Abu Bokkor Siddik
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal
