Paper Details

Name: Parkash Verma
Country: India

Year: 2015
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 5-9

A great writer while writing, inevitably incorporates the trends, values, general beliefs and in fact the very essence of his age. T.S. Eliot is not an exception. His writings, more especially his poetic works remain unintelligible without reference to the age of which he was a part and factors and forces which prompted his literary works of everlasting value. Eliot himself said, “A great poet, in writing of himself, writes his age”. His “The Waste Land” invariably presents the vast panorama of futility and anarchy and is hence known the epic of the modern age.
Eliot‟s main aim of writing poetry was to communicate through presentation the frustration, alienation and anxiety prevalent in the consciousness of the inhabitants of the lost generation .Eliot knew that the inner state of mind of man is very complex; it can only be presented either symbolically or in an indirect manner. To articulate the “agonies of the inarticulate”, he had to make use of various kinds of allusions, symbols and images. His early poetry abounds with the imagery of sickness, disease and death. His concept of Objective Correlative helped him to transmit personal emotions into fused ideas and images which possess a quality of universality.