Dr. Basappa Y. Bangari
Associate Professor
Head
Department of Indian and Foreign Languages
Garden City University
Bengaluru-560049, Karnataka, India bangari163@gmail.com +919448377922
Abstract: This paper attempted to understand influence of modern life on Eliot’s thoughts and writings. Therefore Eliot’s thoughts in his writings are considered as a clear mirror of modern life. After reading Miss Weston’s book “From Ritual to Romance” definitely influenced T.S.Eliot to write a long poem “The Waste Land” which bagged Nobel Prize. The quality of the poem in five parts is incomparable including its subject and information derived from different sources. Eliot carries us with …show more content…
These two poems represent a clear vision of death of spirituality, love for lust, lavish nature in the powerful modern society. One should keep this view in one’s mind that, The Waste Land represent not only external things but also inner values, morality which washed out in the modern land. Man lost his originality, morality, spirituality in this modern era. Cleanthes Brooks observes this as, “The poem is not merely a cry in the wilderness over something past and gone. It is a positive 78 assertion of the need to rehabilitate a system of belief known but now misdirected.”3 (Cleanthes …show more content…
The poem The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is neither an affection tune nor an unconstrained upheaval of the sentiment a sweetheart for his darling, rather it is an investigation of the psyche of the darling who can't take a choice about making the proposition to the woman he adores. In a progression of passages, the sweetheart investigations the explanation behind a determination and re-choice and endeavoured to legitimize his weakness and absence of nerves, which make him totally unequipped for planning a proposition of love and affection towards his