Paper Details

Name: ParkashVerma
Country: India

Year: 2015
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 16-20

T.S Eliot envisioned the modern world as a waste land, in which neither the land or nor the people could conceive. In “The Waste Land”, various characters are sexually frustrated or dysfunctional, unable to cope with either reproduction or non reproductivity : the Fisher King represents damaged sexuality, Tiersias represents confused sexuality and the women chattering in “A Game Of Chess” represents an out of control sexuality. His early poetry up to “The Waste Land’’ deals directly with love, sex and homosexuality as with moral and spiritual sterility. Eliot holds sex responsible for moral and spiritual chaos. Sex for pleasure, as perceived by a modern man, is a stupendous folly. It can destroy the creativity of sex, which is the fountain head of life. The Bhagavad Gita extols sex as God, calls it a desire in human beings, unopposed to Dharma.